The Massachusetts Appeals Court held that a Chapter 40B comprehensive permit authorized apartment occupancy despite Bridgewater’s lodging-house bylaw and ordered the cease-and-desist directive vacated.
Child who turns 21 during BIA appeal stops qualifying for cancellation hardship.
BIA must address hardship evidence, but notice argument was unexhausted.
Minor inconsistencies could not sustain adverse credibility finding.
Court issues a substantive appellate ruling [J-64-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
The Superior Court erred in concluding otherwise, and we reverse that portion of its decision. [J-85-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
Court issues a substantive appellate ruling [J-20-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
Court issues a substantive appellate ruling [J-88-2025] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, McCAFFERY, JJ.
Drugs carried in a car supported mandatory license revocation.
BIA must reconsider asylum credibility after relying on invalid factors.
Industry groups get another chance to seek permissive intervention in emissions-waiver suit.
Family social group claim revived, but unexhausted torture claim rejected.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed that a municipal advisor’s division of underwriting fees was prohibited fee-splitting and upheld the SEC’s full set of remedies.
The Ninth Circuit held that age-based asylum groups are immutable as a matter of law and ordered the BIA to reconsider the applicant’s claims.
The First District Court of Appeal held that California’s Insurance Commissioner regulation permitting auto insurers to use marital status as an optional rating factor remains valid despite the 2005 amendment to the Unruh Civil Rights Act adding marital status as a protected characteristic.
The California Supreme Court held that a restitution order is appropriate in attorney discipline cases where an attorney’s intentional, fraudulent misconduct caused direct financial harm to a non-client, correcting a State Bar Court misreading of prior precedent that had treated tort-based dam
The South Carolina Court of Appeals reversed the Administrative Law Court’s property tax ruling, holding that the “current fair market value” floor for the ATI exemption is the pre-sale value on the assessor’s books—not that value inflated by improvements the prior owner completed before the sale closed. Because the improvements were already incorporated into the ATI fair market value of $8,034,000 used to compute the exemption value, the Assessor’s approach of re-adding them to the current fair market value floor impermissibly double-counted them. The taxable value for tax year 2022 was $6,063,000, not $6,821,000.
The Commonwealth Court reversed the Office of Open Records and held that Pennsylvania Lottery ticket VIRN numbers (Validation Information Record Numbers) are trade secrets exempt from Right-to-Know Law disclosure under Section 708(b)(11), even though individual numbers are revealed to winning ticket holders at the time of claiming a prize. The court reasoned that compiling thousands of claimed VIRN numbers produces a recognizable pattern from which Scientific Games’ proprietary validation algorithm could be reconstructed — making the aggregated dataset a trade secret that ‘reveals’ the algorithm even if isolated numbers do not.
The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed Albany County’s 2023 amendments to its Aquifer Protection Overlay Zone — including a 35-acre minimum lot size within the Casper Aquifer recharge area — holding that counties may use general zoning authority under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 18-5-201 to protect groundwater without displacing WDEQ’s water quality jurisdiction. The court also established, for the first time in a published Wyoming opinion, that the arbitrary and capricious standard of review applies to all agency legislative action (rulemaking) under WAPA, resolving a gap left open by Bienz v. Board of County Commissioners, 2024 WY 102. Justice Hill dissented on authority, arguing the EQA grants WDEQ exclusive jurisdiction over water quality regulation.
The Ninth Circuit affirms a preliminary injunction blocking FinCEN’s “Border GTO” — which required money services businesses in 30 southwest border ZIP codes to file cash-transaction reports for amounts as low as $200 — finding the order was likely a rule requiring notice-and-comment rulemaking and
The Commonwealth Court reversed a Bureau of Hearings and Appeals order that had required a specific judicial finding of ‘child abuse’ before a guilty plea could support a founded ChildLine report, holding that factual identity between the plea and the report — not a separate court-issued label — is the operative standard under the CPSL.
The First Department reverses a Supreme Court order annulling a DOC demotion, holding that provisional appointments under Civil Service Law § 65 carry no tenure and no right to a hearing — and that a provisional appointment does not ripen into permanent status through the passage of time, only through civil service examination.
The First Department dismisses an Article 78 challenge to NYCHA’s redevelopment plan for the Elliot and Chelsea Houses, holding that the four-month CPLR 217(1) limitations period began running from NYCHA’s July 28, 2025 record of decision — leaving the December 22, 2025 filing untimely by nearly a month.
Second Department affirms DHCR’s use of a prior 2014 rent overcharge order to calculate base date rent in a 2017 rent stabilization complaint, applying deferential Article 78 rational basis review.