The Superior Court held that a commercial umbrella policy’s follow-form endorsement did not transform third-party liability coverage into first-party UIM coverage.
The Superior Court held that alleged RESPA servicing violations do not create an affirmative defense to foreclosure and clarified borrower standing to contest assignments.
The Superior Court vacated a custody order that effectively permitted relocation to New Jersey because grandparents with custody rights received no notice that relocation would be reconsidered.
In a precedential ruling, the Superior Court held that an objection to an unreasonably delayed probation-revocation petition does not implicate sentence legality and can be waived.
The Superior Court reversed a 13-year-old’s residential placement because the juvenile court focused on firearm possession without adequately weighing his individualized needs and the availability of intensive in-home treatment.
The Superior Court held that SORNA II’s nonpunitive Subchapter I requires registration by an offender who began lifetime registration under Megan’s Law II, even though his offense predated Pennsylvania’s registration statutes.
The Superior Court affirmed dismissal of a former spouse’s partition case, held that a signed property agreement could convey her interest without recording, and treated fabricated authorities as waiver.
The Superior Court held that a constitutional attack on Philadelphia’s public-carry statute was waived and could not be recast as a nonwaivable illegal-sentence claim.
The Superior Court held that disputed primary-physical-custody issues could not be finally resolved through Blair County’s hearing-officer process and remanded for a judicial hearing.
The Superior Court held that grandparents lacked standing under Section 5325(1) because the surviving parent still exercised parental control after the other parent died.
The Superior Court held that cannabis odor supported extending a traffic stop and, after the driver admitted he lacked a medical-marijuana card, supplied a substantial basis for a vehicle search warrant.
The Superior Court vacated a sentence more than six years below the mitigated guideline range because the record did not support the trial court’s reasons for immediate parole and house arrest.
The Superior Court held that a juvenile’s admission to misdemeanor drug possession did not permit an automatic delinquency adjudication without evidence of a need for treatment, supervision, or rehabilitation.
The Superior Court held that a passenger’s nod and glance toward his waistband, combined with a stolen plate and the surrounding circumstances, gave police reasonable suspicion for a Terry frisk.
The Superior Court preserved nursing-home negligence liability but ordered a new compensatory-damages trial and vacated punitive damages against operating entities.
The Superior Court held that Greenlight app transaction screenshots were machine-generated data rather than hearsay and upheld a juvenile theft adjudication.
The Superior Court upheld a caretaker’s convictions for theft by deception and financial exploitation of an older adult based on checks obtained beyond her agreed compensation.
The Superior Court held that towing a stolen truck, without evidence the driver knew it was stolen before police stopped him, did not establish a prima facie case of receiving stolen property.
The Superior Court vacated an estate-account decree because the orphans’ court presumed attorney and executor fees reasonable based solely on local guidelines and shifted the burden to the objectors.
The Superior Court held that a probation department petition did not preserve a defendant’s separate request for discretionary early termination under Section 9771.
The Superior Court discharged a risking-catastrophe conviction because reckless driving did not create the extraordinary, widespread danger the statute requires, while affirming evading arrest on foot.
The Superior Court held that related criminal charges do not automatically require postponement of a final Protection from Abuse hearing and upheld the denial of an indefinite continuance.
The Superior Court held that multiple observations supplied reasonable suspicion to extend a traffic stop for a dog sniff and that the driver voluntarily consented to an interior search.
The Superior Court held that a law firm owed court-ordered guardian ad litem fees had standing to pursue civil contempt even though the firm was not a party to the custody case.