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  • Springwood Development Partners, Lp v. Board of Sup'rs of North Cornwall Tp.

    992 A.2d 890 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 20, 2010

    992 A.2d 890 (2010) SPRINGWOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, L.P. v. BOARD OF SUP'RS OF NORTH CORNWALL TP. IN RE BOARD OF SUP'RS OF NORTH CORNWALL TP. No. 846 MAL (2009). Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. April 20, 2010.

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  • Albright v. County of Bedford

    106 Pa. 582 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 6, 1884

    When a positive law clearly prescribes the manner and nature of the compensation to be paid to a public officer, the directions of that law should be the only rule and measure of the officer’s claim on the public moneys: Brown … v.

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  • Erie County v. Sterling, Exrs.

    319 Pa. 568 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 1, 1935

    Justice Sergeant in Foulk v. … L. 474, which amended section 5 of the Act of 1913, supra, we had held, in Schmuck v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Woelpper v. Pennsylvania Water & Power Co.

    250 Pa. 559 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 3, 1915

    Justice Brown, who adds (p. 555): “There can be no balancing of conveniences when such balancing involves the preservation of an established right.” Again in Hall v. … As was also said in Sullivan v.

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  • Plains Township Election Returns

    280 Pa. 520 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 19, 1924

    The common pleas judges, when acting as a computation board, are for the most part exercising ministerial, and not judicial, functions (for discussion on this point see Thompson v. … v.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Karns v. McKinney

    74 Pa. 387 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 5, 1874

    . v. … et al. v.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Browne Naturalization Case

    407 Pa. 476 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 21, 1962

    (Emphasis supplied) (United States v. Rego, 289 F. 2d 174 .) What are the facts? Browne arrived, as already stated, in the United States on February 25, 1953. … The draft board prepared for him a letter which would effectuate his intentions. The letter contained the sentence: “I, Patrick Joseph Browne, Alien Registration No.

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  • Commonwealth, Department of Education v. Empowerment Board of Control

    595 Pa. 594 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Dec 27, 2007

    This court’s affirmance of the Commonwealth Court’s order dated April 16, 2007 by opinion and Order at Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dep’t of Education v. … Therefore, the Special Board of Control of the Chester-Upland School District is no longer a party to this appeal. See, e.g., Blackwell v.

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  • Board of Home Missions & Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church v. Philadelphia

    266 Pa. 405 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Feb 23, 1920

    Upper Darby School District, 90 Pa. 21 ; Phila. v. Women’s Christian Association, 125 Pa. 572 ; Woman’s Home Missionary Society v. Receiver of Taxes, 173 Pa. 456 ; Episcopal Academy v. … Patrol v.

    Cited 38 timesPublished
  • Pardee v. Schuylkill County

    276 Pa. 246 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 29, 1923

    v. *250 Leib, 267 Pa. 24 ; Southern Pacific Terminal Co. v. … The fact that the changes in the assessments were wholesale in their character, is also of no moment (Rees v.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SCI-CAMP HILL v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

    594 Pa. 34 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 4, 2007

    The Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED and the Commonwealth Court’s decision and order is REVERSED and the matter is REMANDED for reconsideration in light of our decision in Navickas v. Unemployment Comp. … the Unemployment Compensation Act sets forth a single governing standard of willful misconduct and rejecting idea that a higher standard may apply based upon the type or nature of *35 the employment involved) and Grieb v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Department of Labor & Industry, Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

    170 A.3d 1006 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Aug 23, 2017

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  • Noah's Ark Christian Child Care Center, Inc. v. Zoning Hearing Boardzoning Hearing Board

    584 Pa. 9 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Aug 15, 2005

    AND NOW, this 15th day of August, 2005, the Order of the Commonwealth Court affirming the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County is reversed based upon our prior decisions in Valley View Civic Association v. … ); and Nettleton v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Pennsylvania Ass'n of State Mental Hospital Physicians, Inc. v. State Employees' Retirement Board

    484 Pa. 313 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 14, 1979

    Physicians v. State Employees’ Retirement Bd., 25 Pa.Cmwlth. at 640-41 , 361 A.2d at 454 . … E. g., Gaul v. City of Philadelphia, 384 Pa. 494 , 121 A.2d 103 (1956). But the Board’s implementation of its revised method required the Board to identify salaried part-time employees.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Goetz's Estate

    236 Pa. 630 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 2, 1912

    Justice Brown, These two appeals will be disposed of together. The same questions are raised by each and the assignments of error are identical. … L. 73, shall be managed and conducted by a president and a board of directors or trustees.

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  • American Body Care v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Kmart Corp. & Sedgwick Management Services)

    166 A.3d 1231 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Feb 21, 2017

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  • Cope v. Cordova

    1 Rawle 203 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 27, 1829

    The same point has also been ruled by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in Chickering v. Fowler, 4 Pick. 371 . … We would wish to be understood as giving no opinion on the law which regulates the internal or coasting trade, to which I understand the case of Ostrander v. Brown and Stafford, 15 Johns. 39 , to apply.

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • North Side Laundry Co. v. Allegheny County Board of Property Assessment, Appeals & Review

    366 Pa. 636 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 19, 1951

    The learned court below and the Superior Court upheld the action of the Board on the authority of our decision in United Laund. v. Board of Prop. Assess., 359 Pa. 195 , 58 A. 2d 833 . … Furthermore, we stated in Suermann v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Department of Labor & Industry, Bureau of Workers' Compensation v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

    619 Pa. 29 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 21, 2012

    The Board appealed the decision of the Commonwealth Court to this Court. … Department of Labor & Industry v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Calvert v. Eberly

    302 Pa. 152 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 26, 1930

    Eberly, the testimony shows, paid her fifty dollars a month as his board and he owned the house in which they lived. … [Citing, among others, the cases of Gilbraith’s Est., 270 Pa. 288, 294-5 ; Winfield v. Beaver Trust Co., 229 Pa. 530, 532 ; Brown v. McCurdy, 278 Pa. 19, 22 .] ......

    Cited 18 timesPublished

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