Case law

Girard Will Case

386 Pa. 548 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 12, 1956

They are therefore clearly distinguishable. In Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U. … In fact, there are more qualified applicants than can be accepted and accommodated.

In Re: 2,349 Ballots in the 2020 General Election

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 23, 2020

These provisions demonstrate that the General Assembly clearly knew how to impose such a requirement when it wishes to do so. In re Nov. 3, 2020 Gen. … The Secretary also clearly has no authority to declare ballots null and void.

In Re: Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 23, 2020

These provisions demonstrate that the General Assembly clearly knew how to impose such a requirement when it wishes to do so. In re Nov. 3, 2020 Gen. … The Secretary also clearly has no authority to declare ballots null and void.

Commonwealth v. Besch

544 Pa. 1 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 17, 1996

I recognize that this well-established line of federal cases is not binding on us in interpreting our own state statute. … For example, associations of persons engaged solely in “loan sharking, the theft of and fencing of property, the importation and distribution of narcotics and other dangerous drugs” [ 84 Stat. 922 -23] would be immune from

Commonwealth v. Rolan

520 Pa. 1 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 18, 1988

Our cases clearly indicate that ineffectiveness claims are measured by two components. … These veniremen satisfied the purpose of the voir dire questioning and qualified themselves as fair and impartial jurors. *11 Under such circumstances, we do not find that counsel’s tactical decision not to ask further questions

Get Set Organization v. Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Local No. 3

446 Pa. 174 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Dec 20, 1971

By way of illustration, Article XIII, §1101.1301 empowering the Labor Board to prevent any unfair labor practices would clearly be operative while Article XII, §1101.1201 which contains a listing of those unfair practices … The board shall establish after consulting representatives of employe organizations and of public employers, panels of qualified persons broadly representative of the public to be available to serve as members of fact-finding

Perillo v. Commonwealth

476 Pa. 494 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 31, 1978

The law thus clearly establishes the liability of Mr. Perillo’s property to DPW for any assistance given his spouse and minor children after he inherited it and while he retains it. … The Act thus clearly establishes the liability of “any” spouse for the maintenance, assistance and burial of those in his or her family.

Szabo, S. v. PennDOT, Aplt.

202 A.3d 52 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Feb 20, 2019

objections under Section [306] of the Code are intended as a procedure to resolve expeditiously all legal and factual challenges to the declaration of taking before the parties move to the second distinct proceeding of qualifying … I would decline to expand the range of circumstances establishing a de facto taking to include unsubstantiated averments of mistake on the face of plans attached to a declaration of taking which clearly set forth the parcels

In Re: Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 23, 2020

These provisions demonstrate that the General Assembly clearly knew how to impose such a requirement when it wishes to do so. In re Nov. 3, 2020 Gen. … The Secretary also clearly has no authority to declare ballots null and void.

In Re: Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 23, 2020

These provisions demonstrate that the General Assembly clearly knew how to impose such a requirement when it wishes to do so. In re Nov. 3, 2020 Gen. … The Secretary also clearly has no authority to declare ballots null and void.

Brolasky's Estate

309 Pa. 30 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 20, 1932

We think the evidence was clearly insufficient to establish their contention. What was the subject of the grant? … Returning now to appellants’ contention that “the assignment by virtue of the qualifying words ‘said estate being worth about $200,000’ is ambiguous on its face,” and that those words “on their face restrict the assign *42

Board of Public Education v. Intille

401 Pa. 1 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jun 30, 1960

. *12 It stands ont too clearly for any misunderstanding that the only thing for which the appellants were dismissed by the Board was that they had refused to answer certain questions of a Congressional Committee upon a proper … There is no prerequisite to the exercise of the privilege against self-incrimination that the pleader must first establish affirmatively his good faith and lack of frivolity in entering the plea.

Commonwealth v. Fisher

559 Pa. 558 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 24, 1999

Article I, § 17 of the Pennsylvania Constitution provides that "[n]o ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, or making irrevocable any grant of special privileges or immunities, shall be passed … Further, contrary to the Commonwealth’s suggestion, we did not resolve this issue in Fisher II; we clearly staled therein that we did not reach this issue. 681 A.2d at 144 n. 6. .

Parsons Bros. Slate Co. v. Commonwealth

418 Pa. 389 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jun 30, 1965

`A contract is not made so long as, in the contemplation of both parties thereto, something remains to be done to establish contract relations': 12 Am. Jur., Contracts, § 23, p. 519. … This clearly was not the intent of the Commonwealth. Obviously it did not propose to be bound until plaintiffs at least executed the release.

Commonwealth v. Wardlaw, J., Aplt.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 29, 2021

Accordingly, I do not find it helpful to view this issue in syntactical terms.1 And “award” can clearly function as both verb and noun. … It states that “An appeal may be taken from” qualifying orders. The Rule establishes the circumstances in which a party may take an interlocutory appeal as of right from a non-final order.

Leadenham's Estate

289 Pa. 216 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 14, 1927

Austin were appointed and qualified as his executors and filed an inventory and appraisement, which omitted a large amount of corporate stock represented by certificates contained in box 59 of the trust company’s vaults. … The requisites of a valid gift inter vivos are also clearly stated and many pertinent authorities cited in the opinion of this court by Mr. Justice Sadler, in Kaufman’s Estate, 281 Pa. 519 ; see also Sullivan v.

Albright v. Lafayette Building & Savings Ass'n

102 Pa. 411 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 1, 1883

St. 122, there was a minimum premium fixed by the building association, below which, loans could not be made, as in the present case ; such a provision was clearly in conflict with the Act of 1859 and was so declared. … Whilst building and loan associations are entitled to all the privileges, powers and immunities allowed by law, they znust be held to contz’act in confoz’mity therewith.

Payne v. Commonwealth Department of Corrections

582 Pa. 375 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 29, 2005

Section 6602, however, does not address the establishment of a filing fee or its appropriation. … The Department has established the reasonableness of its beliefs.

In Re: Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 23, 2020

These provisions demonstrate that the General Assembly clearly knew how to impose such a requirement when it wishes to do so. In re Nov. 3, 2020 Gen. … The Secretary also clearly has no authority to declare ballots null and void.

Potter v. Natural Gas Co.

183 Pa. 575 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 3, 1898

Just what were the facts teixding to show negligence by defendant were xxot beyond controversy, and, if established, the inferexices that defendant claimed should be drawn *589 from them did not necessarily follow. … Those who traveled the road were qualified to testify from actual observation.