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Category Archives: Summary Court Opinions

PRODUCTS LIABILITY-ROUNDUP

Posted on May 20, 2025 - 4:30 pm by

Caranci v. Monsanto, 2025 Pa. LEXIS 205 (Pa. Super. Ct., May 8, 2025) (Dubow, J.) OPINION BY DUBOW, J.: Appellant, Monsanto Company (“Monsanto”), appeals from the $177,285,102.74 judgment entered in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on March 11, 2024, following a jury verdict in favor of Appellees, Ernest Caranci (“Mr. Caranci”) and Carmela […]

DOMESTIC RELATIONS-PARENTAGE

Posted on May 20, 2025 - 4:28 pm by

Glover v. Junior, 2025 Pa. LEXIS 390 (Pa. Super. Ct., March 20, 2025) (Dougherty, J.) JUSTICE DOUGHERTY Our law in this Commonwealth presently recognizes four pathways to establish legal parentage: biology, adoption, equity (i.e., parentage by a marital presumption or estoppel), and contract where a child is born using Assistive Reproductive Technology (ART). As we […]

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-SECOND AMENDMENT-GUN CONTROL-RIGHT TO SUE-RETAILER THAT SOLD FIREARM

Posted on May 20, 2025 - 4:28 pm by

Gustafson v. Springfield, Inc., 2025 Pa. LEXIS 442 (Pa. Super. Ct., April 9, 2025) (Mundy, J.) JUSTICE MUNDY In March 2016, thirteen-year-old J.R. Gustafson tragically died after he was accidentally shot by his fourteen-year-old friend (the Juvenile) at the home of another. After J.R.’s death, his parents, Mark and Leah Gustafson filed the underlying action […]

EVIDENCE-PRESUMPTION-PATERNITY

Posted on May 20, 2025 - 4:27 pm by

Sitler v. Jones, 2025 Pa. LEXIS 600 (Pa. Super. Ct., April 25, 2025) (Wecht, J.) JUSTICE WECHT The presumption of paternity dictates that, regardless of biology, the child of a married woman is the child of her husband. At issue in this case is whether this longstanding principle of the common law retains force in […]

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE-MCARE ACT-SUBROGATION-WORKERS COMPENSATION

Posted on April 30, 2025 - 8:38 am by

Griffis v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Albert Einstein Healthcare Network), 328 A.3d 538, LEXIS 846 (Pa. Commonwealth Ct., July 15, 2020) (J. Cohn Jubelirer) Judges: BEFORE: HONORABLE RENÉE COHN JUBELIRER, Judge, HONORABLE ELLEN CEISLER, Judge (P.), HONORABLE BONNIE BRIGANCE LEADBETTER, Senior Judge. The claimant appealed to this Court, asserting that the silence in Section 508 […]

CIVIL RIGHTS-RELIGION-COVID VACCINE

Posted on April 18, 2025 - 8:39 am by

Allegheny Cnty. Dep’t of Health v. Wilkerson, 2024 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 263 (Pa. Commonwealth Court, December 19, 2024) (Wallace, J.) The Allegheny County Department of Health petition for review of an Order of the State Civil Service Commission which instated the appeal of employee Wilkerson and overruled the department’s action of terminating her from employment. […]

CIVIL RIGHTS-RELIGION-COVID VACCINE

Posted on March 28, 2025 - 12:53 pm by

Allegheny Cnty. Dep’t of Health v. Wilkerson, 2024 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 263 (Pa. Commonwealth Court, December 19, 2024) (Wallace, J.) The Allegheny County Department of Health petition for review of an Order of the State Civil Service Commission which instated the appeal of employee Wilkerson and overruled the department’s action of terminating her from employment. […]