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  • Heath v. WCAB (BD. OF PROB. AND PAR.)

    860 A.2d 25 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 20, 2004

    In a published opinion, the Commonwealth Court affirmed the Board's order. Heath v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole), 811 A.2d 90 (Pa.Cmwlth.2002). … Heath v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole), 573 Pa. 700 , 825 A.2d 1263 (2003).

    Cited 43 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth Ex Rel. Margiotti v. Cunningham

    337 Pa. 289 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 27, 1939

    Compare Com, ex rel. v. Brown, 327 Pa. 136, 142 , 193 *300 A. 258. That right is taken away by the Act. … The contract, it is to be noted, was made by the board of education for a matter clearly within their department.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Hastings v. Speer

    34 Pa. Super. 478 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 7, 1907

    Brown. … Co., 14 Pa. 302 ; Sidwell v. Evans, 1 P. & W. 383; Ben Franklin Fire Ins. Co. v. Flynn, 98 Pa. 627, 636 .

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Stimmler v. Chestnut Hill Hospital

    602 Pa. 539 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 30, 2009

    Atcovitz v. … Penn Center House, Inc. v.

    Cited 67 timesPublished
  • Clark v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co.

    264 Pa. 529 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 28, 1919

    Imperial Co., supra, p. 326-7; Lane v. … Imperial Co., supra, 327; Lane v.

    Cited 57 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Williams

    456 Pa. 550 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 25, 1974

    Commonwealth v. Lee, 450 Pa. 152, 156-57 , 299 A.2d 640 (1973); Commonwealth v. Person, 450 Pa. 1, 4-5 , 297 A.2d 460 (1972); Commonwealth v. Brown, 443 Pa. 274, 277 , 278 A.2d 170 (1971); Commonwealth v. … In short, a sentence will not be reviewed “unless there has been a showing of illegality,” Commonwealth v. Brown, supra.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • In re Bruno

    627 Pa. 505 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Aug 28, 2014

    Board’s Brief at 27-29 & nn. 10, 13 (citing Pa. Const, art. V, § 10(a) (1968); 42 Pa.C.S. § 502). … Board’s Brief at 51-53 (citing Pa. Const, árt. V, § 10(a)).

    Cited 60 timesPublished
  • Ellenbogen v. County of Allegheny

    479 Pa. 429 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 14, 1978

    Sweet v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, 479 Pa. 449 , 388 A.2d 740 (1978) (Sweet II); Bucks County Board of *436 Judges v. … See Sweet v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, 479 Pa. 449 , 388 A.2d 740 (1978) (Sweet II); Bucks County Board of Judges v. Bucks County Commissioners, 479 Pa. 455 , 388 A.2d 743 (1978).

    Cited 74 timesPublished
  • School District v. Fuess

    98 Pa. 600 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 14, 1881

    This principle applies to municipal corporations : Painter v. The City of Pitts- *606 burg, 10 Wr. 213. … Tlie directors as a board must exercise their powers — tlie board may make contracts, may authorize a committee to make a contract, and may appoint an agent for a proper and specific purpose.

    Cited 37 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Fitzpatrick III, J., Aplt.

    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 23, 2021

    Brown, 490 F.2d at 763. The Brown Court acknowledged the risk that juries may be unable or unwilling to follow the limiting instruction and instead use the statement for an improper purpose. Id. at 764. … Commonwealth v. Wright, 691 A.2d 119, 151 (Pa. 2008).

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • In re Private Road in Speers Boro, II

    608 Pa. 302 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 18, 2011

    McGavitt v. Guttman Realty Company, 909 A.2d 1, 5 (Pa.Super.2006). … As such, our courts from early in the history of the Act have construed it as requiring the ‘strictest necessity.’ ” Graff v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Michener Appeal

    382 Pa. 401 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jun 27, 1955

    App.); Oklahoma City v. Harris, 191 Okla. 125 , 126 P. 2d 988 ; O’Rourke v. Teeters, 63 Cal. App. 2d, 349 , 146 P. 2d 983 . See also Schleifer v. Zoning Board of Adjustment, 374 Pa. 277 , 97 A. 2d 782 . … In Beck v. Board of Adjustment of City of East Orange, 15 N.J.

    Cited 87 timesPublished
  • Symons v. National Electric Products, Inc.

    414 Pa. 505 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jun 1, 1964

    Accord, Chernetsky v. William Penn Stripping Co., 200 Pa. Superior Ct. 277 , 188 A. 2d 770 (1963) ; see Holt v. Sunray Electric, Inc., 186 Pa. Superior Ct. 594 , 142 A. 2d 509 (1958); Hollenbach v. … The board has not determined otherwise in this case.” Rutledge v. Daley’s Blue Line Transfer Co., 152 Pa. Superior Ct. 118, 122-23 , 31 A. 2d 366, 368 (1943).

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Ventresca v. Exley

    358 Pa. 98 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Dec 4, 1947

    Superior Ct. 599 ; Heubner v. Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, 127 Pa. Superior Ct. 28, 36 , 192 A. 139, 142 . … Clarke’s Appeal, 37 D. & C. 670, 677-679; Gheen v. Mencer, 52 D. & C. 422, 427).

    Cited 45 timesPublished
  • Malone v. Keener

    44 Pa. 107 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 20, 1862

    The assignor owes the assignee, and that particular mode of paying him is adopted; he guarantees in substance his own debt: Browne on Stat. of Frauds, § 165. The cases of Browne v. Curtis, 2 Comstock 229, and Johnson v. … This belongs to the third class *110 of cases mentioned by Chief Justice Kent, in Leonard v. Yredenburgh, 8 Johns. 38 -9.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth ex rel. Thomas v. Myers

    419 Pa. 577 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 4, 1966

    Sparks v. … Horne v. Pa. Board of Parole, 234 F. Supp. 368 .

    Overruled on other grounds by Commonwealth ex rel. Rambeau v. Rundle, 455 Pa. 8 (1973)Cited 28 timesPublished
  • Noble v. Police Beneficiary Ass'n

    224 Pa. 298 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 12, 1909

    American Legion of Honor, 168 Pa. 279 ; Brown v. Ancient Order of United Workmen, 208 Pa. 101 ; Supreme Conclave, Royal Adelphia, v. Cappella et ah, 41 Fed. Repr. 1. … In our state, in the recent case of Pennsylvania Railroad Company v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Messinger v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

    261 Pa. 336 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 6, 1918

    Co. v. Winfield, 244 U. S. 147, 152 , and Erie R. R. Co. v. Winfield, 244 U. S. 170, 172 . … In McCauley v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Ganaposki's Case

    332 Pa. 550 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 27, 1938

    of “wilful and persistent negligence” for which he may be dismissed. “. . . disobedience of reasonable orders of the Board of Education is an act of negligence” : Lyndall v. … The School Code provides that he must “teach” under the authority of the board; the refusal to do so is a di *556 rect violation of the Code and his contract: Ditty v.

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Vonot v. Hudson Coal Co.

    285 Pa. 385 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 25, 1926

    In McCauley v. Imperial Woolen Co., 261 Pa. 312 , certain procedural provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1915, P. … As to this, we need say only that the point is determined by us against appellant’s contention that such cumulation cannot legally be allowed, in a per curiam opinion to-day filed in the case of Sustar v.

    Cited 22 timesPublished

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