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  • Commonwealth v. Scutt

    262 Pa. 154 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jul 17, 1918

    director of the Dickson City Borough School District, and the circumstances under which he was unlawfully expelled from the said office, are fully set forth by us in an opinion recently handed down in the case of Moskovitz v. … The authorities cited by tbe learned judge, more particularly Commonwealth v.

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  • Gary D. Reihart, Inc. v. TP. OF CARROLL

    487 Pa. 461 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Dec 21, 1979

    Reihart, Inc. v. Township of Carroll, 91 York 77 , 78 (1977) (Blakey, J.). … See also Taylor v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Graham

    554 Pa. 472 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Dec 22, 1998

    Brown, 460 U.S. 730 , 103 S.Ct. 1535 , 75 L.Ed.2d 502 , (1983), the U.S. … Brown, 460 U.S. at 737 , 103 S.Ct. at 1541 (citing Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 465 , 91 S.Ct. 2022, 2037 , 29 L.Ed.2d 564 (1971) (plurality opinion)). See also Commonwealth v.

    Cited 60 timesPublished
  • W. T. Grant Co. v. United Retail Employees, Local No. 134

    347 Pa. 224 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 24, 1943

    This necessitated a rehearing by the board as to the amount of pay, if any, to which she is entitled. The board again made the same order for wages and the case has again reached this court. *226 . … B. v. Kaufmann Dept. Stores, Inc., 345 Pa. 398, 400 , 29 A. 2d 90 . The appellant relies solely on the claim that the evidence does not show that Mrs.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Grigsby

    493 Pa. 194 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Feb 5, 1981

    Respondent has also been before this Court in a disciplinary proceeding which involved two separate incidents of misconduct, Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Grigsby, Disciplinary Board File No. 5 D.B. 76. … See Yurick v. Commonwealth Board of Osteopathic Examiners, 43 Pa.Cmwlth. 248 , 402 A.2d 290 (1979). (Fraud is the touchstone of “moral turpitude”).

    Cited 76 timesPublished
  • Simco Sales Service of Pennsylvania, Inc. v. Brackin

    344 Pa. 628 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Apr 13, 1942

    Crowl, 245 Pa. 554 ; Hutchinson Ice Cream Co. v. Iowa, 242 U. S. 153 . … It is not peculiar to the Board of Health of the Borough of Lansdowne.

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  • Martin v. Garnet Valley School District

    441 Pa. 502 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 25, 1971

    Travis v. Teter, 370 Pa. 326 , 87 A. 2d 177 (1952). See also Unger v. Hampton Twp., 437 Pa. 399 , 263 A. 2d 385 (1970); Gallagher v. Spring Twp. Bd. of Com., 438 Pa. 280 , 264 A. 2d 699 (1970). … Nor can mandamus be used to compel the school board to reach the conclusion which the appellants desire. As we stated in Travis v. Teter, supra: “. . .

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Hatfield

    397 Pa. Super. 90 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 4, 1990

    He fled the scene and entered another residence in the area belonging to Jane Brown. Appellant climbed the stairs and, utilizing a towel, grabbed Mrs. Brown by the *92 throat. … Brown into a closet. He then ransacked her jewelry box, removed $100 from her purse, and fled.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Ward

    340 Pa. Super. 1 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Feb 28, 1985

    In a case very much on point, Cunningham v. … Commonwealth v. Rohde, 485 Pa. 404 , 402 A.2d 1025 (1979); Commonwealth v. Sheehan, 446 Pa. 35 , 285 A.2d 465 (1971).

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  • Commonwealth v. Galloway

    495 Pa. 535 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 24, 1981

    Appellant’s case was consolidated for trial with that of codefendants Dale Troop and Ronald Brown. … Rule 1119(b); Commonwealth v. Brown, 490 Pa. 560 , 417 A.2d 181 (1980).

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  • Brinton v. Kerr

    320 Pa. 62 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 9, 1935

    We definitely state again that the title to office cannot be tested by mandamus ( Com. v. James, 214 Pa. 319 ), injunction (Eddy v. … Gibson, 316 Pa. 429 , 434; Williams's App., 312 Pa. 477, 479 ; Com. ex rel. v. Conroy, 267 Pa. 518 ; Hutchinson v. Goshorn, 256 Pa. 69 .

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Moosic Lakes Club v. Gorski

    402 Pa. 640 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 13, 1961

    (Our emphasis) In Bagley v. … That might be true, under cases with facts like those in Cella v. Davidson, 304 Pa. 389 (1931), 156 A. 99 , but Siranovich v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Baxter v. Phila. Bd. of Elections; of RNC

    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 1, 2024

    : No. 76 EM 2024 KINNIRY : : : v. … : No. 77 EM 2024 KINNIRY : : : v.

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  • In re Auditors' Report

    245 Pa. 17 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Mar 30, 1914

    We said in Bell v. Allegheny County, 149 Pa. 381, 385 , that the Act of 1878 “should be most liberally construed.” … Two boards of county commissioners have succeeded the alleged defaulting board and so far as the record discloses neither board has given any assistance in having the conduct of the former board of commissioners investigated

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  • Commonwealth v. Joyner

    441 Pa. 242 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 7, 1971

    Commonwealth v. Brown, 309 Pa. 515 , 164 Atl. 726 (1933). … In Commonwealth v. Brown, supra, at page 523, we quoted a somewhat similar charge as follows: “Do not have your reason swayed and your prejudices aroused by the tales of the terrible treatment by the police.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Phipps v. Kirk

    333 Pa. 478 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 12, 1939

    L. 1173, while appellees’ appeals to the board and the lower court were pending. … Co. v.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • In Re: Prospect Crozer from the Delaware County Board of Assessment

    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Dec 17, 2024

    Copyright Royalty Board, 796 F.3d 111, (D.C. Cir. 2021); Nguyen v. United States, 539 U.S. 69, 84-85 (2003)). … Fox v.

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  • Robinson v. Y.W.C.A.

    433 Pa. 211 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jan 15, 1969

    though taken in such further hearing.” (77 P.S. §§877, 879) In Driscoll v. … See: Miles v. Masters, 374 Pa. 127 , 97 A. 2d 36 (1953). 3 See: Robinson v. Y.W.C.A., 212 Pa. Superior Ct. 35 , 239 A. 2d 835 (1968).

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Purvis

    458 Pa. 359 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Oct 16, 1974

    The final interrogation session commenced at 7:30 P.M. by Detective Brown. … See Culombe v. Connecticut, supra at 602 ; Commonwealth ex rel. Butler v. Rundle, supra at 151 , 239 A.2d at 431 ; Commonwealth v. Eiland, supra at 574 , 301 A.2d at 654 ; Commonwealth v.

    Cited 21 timesPublished
  • Murphy v. Boone

    982 A.2d 62 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Sep 3, 2009

    982 A.2d 62 (2009) Roscoe MURPHY III, Roscoe Murphy, Jr. and Ernette Murphy v. Elwood BOONE, Kim S. Jordan, Vanessa Brown and Evelyn Anderson and The Bank of New York Petition of Roscoe Murphy III and Roscoe Murphy, Jr.

    Cited 1 timesPublished

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