Pennsylvania Liens Law

United States of America v. Dean Rossi

<center><h2><center>Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with defrauding three federally insured banks into loaning him approximately $4.15 million. </h2></center> Though we write only for the parties, Rossi raises a sufficiency of the evidence claim and sentencing challenges that require us to explain the facts in some det... More...

$0 (10-19-2021 - PA)

United States of America v. Dorothy Recarde

<center> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Philadelphia_PA_FED.jpg"> </center> Philadelphia, PA - The United States of America charged Dorothy Recarde, age 68, with filing false and fraudulent lines worth $15 million against an employee of the Internal Revenue Service. In December 2019, the defendant pleaded guilty to corruptly ende... More...

$0 (09-02-2020 - PA)

United States of America v. Behzad Sabagh

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"> </center> Philadelphia, PA - Real Estate Investor Guilty of Bribing Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office Employee Sentenced Behzad Sabagh, 37, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 1 month imprisonment, 9 months house arrest as part of 3 years supervised release, $30,000 fine and... More...

$0 (08-20-2019 - PA)

United States of America v. Behzad Sabagh

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"> </center> Philadelphia, PA - Real Estate Investor Guilty of Bribing Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office Employee Sentenced Behzad Sabagh, 37, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 1 month imprisonment, 9 months house arrest as part of 3 years supervised release, $30,000 fi... More...

$0 (08-17-2019 - PA)

Theodore Hayes and Aqeela Fogle v. Philip E. Harvey

The Hayes family receives enhanced voucher rental assistance from the federal government, and a federal statute provides that enhanced voucher holders “may elect to remain” in their housing developments, even after their landlord has opted out of the federal housing assistance program. 42 U.S.C. § 1437f(t)(1)(B). But the Hayes family’s landlord, Appellee Philip Harve... More...

$0 (09-04-2018 - PA)

Lea Augustin v. City of Philadelphia

This case involves a group of landlords who object to the system of liens used by the City of Philadelphia to collect unpaid gas bills. The District Court certified a class and held that the City had violated the landlords’ rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The City filed this appeal, arguing that its procedures for collecting gas debts are constitutional. We agree... More...

$0 (07-23-2018 - PA)

Theodore Hayes v. Philip E. Harvey

In this appeal, we must decide whether the enhanced voucher provision of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437f(t), requires property owners to continuously renew enhanced-voucher tenancies. Theodore Hayes and Aqeela Fogle (the Hayes family) are a low-income family whose rent is subsidized by enhanced voucher assistance. Their eligibility to receive enhanced vouchers is continge... More...

$0 (11-03-2017 - PA)

United States of America v. Chester A. Bitterman, Jr., C. Grant Bitterman, Curtis L. Bitterman and Craig L. Bitterman

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Chester A. Bitterman Jr., 81, and his sons, Craig L. Bitterman, 55, C. Grant Bitterman, 53, and Curtis L. Bitterman, 61, were sentenced for conspiracy to defraud the United States. At sentencing hearings held on July 15, 17 and 22, U.S. District Court Judge James Knoll Gardner imposed the following sentences: Craig L. Bitterman, of Strasburg, PA, was s... More...

$0 (07-23-2015 - PA)

United States of America v. Eric Tubbs

PHILADELPHIA, PA â€“ Eric Tubbs, 54, of Philadelphia, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in prison for fraudulently selling properties he did not own. Tubbs found vacant properties, created phony deeds which falsely transferred the properties from the legitimate owners to individuals recruited by him, and sold properties owned by estates by having others pose as the executors. Tubbs then ... More...

$0 (07-31-2014 - PA)

In re: Kelly L. Makowka

This appeal requires us to interpret a state statuteâ€”the Pennsylvania Uniform Planned Community Act (UPCA), 68 Pa. Cons. Stat. Â§Â§ 5101â€“414â€”in the bankruptcy context. Appellant Kelly Makowka seeks in Chapter 13 proceedings to avoid a portion of claims made by her homeowners association, Pocono Mountain Lake Estates Community Association (the Association). The Bankruptcy C... More...

$0 (06-09-2014 - PA)

Glenda Johnson v. Smithkline Beecham Corporation

Plaintiffs Glenda Johnson and Steven Lucier appeal an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denying their motion to remand this action to Pennsylvania state court. They contend that the District Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over their claims because the parties do not have complete diversity of 5 citizenship. We conclude that the Dist... More...

$0 (06-07-2013 - PA)

Zackery D. Lewis v. Gary Alexander

This case involves the interaction between state and federal law under the Medicaid system, a cooperative program between the state and federal governments to provide medical assistance to those with limited financial resources. Seeking to stamp out abusive manipulation of trusts to hide assets and thereby manufacture Medicaid eligibility, Congress created a comprehensive system of rules mandating... More...

$0 (06-24-2012 - PA)

US Airways, Inc. v. James E. McCutchen

After Appellant James McCutchen suffered a serious automobile accident, a benefit plan administered by US Airways paid $66,866 for his medical expenses. McCutchen then recovered $110,000 from third parties, with the assistance of counsel. Then US Airways, which had not sought to enforce its subrogation rights, demanded reimbursement of the entire $66,866 it had paid without allowance for McCutchen... More...

$0 (11-16-2011 - PA)

US Airways INC v. James McCutchen

After Appellant James McCutchen suffered a serious automobile accident, a benefit plan administered by US Airways paid $66,866 for his medical expenses. McCutchen then recovered $110,000 from third parties, with the assistance of counsel. Then US Airways, which had not sought to enforce its subrogation rights, demanded reimbursement of the entire $66,866 it had paid without allowance for McCutche... More...

$0 (11-18-2011 - PA)

Rita L. Tristani v.Estelle Richman

In 1965, Congress amended the Social Security Act to create a program for states to assist the poor with their medical expenses. Through this program, known as Medicaid, the fifty states pay medical expenses on behalf of qualified beneficiaries. For more than thirty years, in circumstances where third parties are liable for such medical expenses, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW)... More...

$0 (06-29-2011 - PA)

Boro Construction, Inc. v. Ridley School District

Boro Construction, Inc. (Boro) and Ridley School District (District) have filed cross appeals from the orders entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County (trial court) denying their motions for post-trial relief and entering judgment in favor of the District and against Boro on the complaint, and in favor of Boro and against the District on the District's counterclaims. We affirm. <... More...

$0 (03-08-2010 - PA)

Grady Jordan v. The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, d/b/a West Penn Hospital

The Department of Public Welfare (the Department) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) that overruled the Department's objections to the trial court's approval of a settlement of a tort action brought by the parents of Grady Jordan, a minor, on his behalf, seeking damages for injuries he suffered as a result of alleged medical malpractice at the time of h... More...

$0 (11-10-2008 - PA)

Michael A. Lombardo v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al.

This case requires the Court to consider the contours of state sovereign immunity and under what circumstances such immunity may be waived. Alleging violations of both federal and state antidiscrimination laws, Michael A. Lombardo (Lombardo) filed an employment discrimination complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Pu... More...

$0 (08-26-2008 - PA)

<a href="http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/recentop/day/001075.txt" target="_new">Eileen Cowell v. Palmer Township, et al.</a>

Eileen Cowell, Richard Cowell, Sylvester Pany, and Eastgate Land & Development Corp. (collectively"plaintiffs") brought takings and due process claims pursuant to 42 U.S.C. S 1983, as well as various state law claims, against Palmer Township, various township officials, and the Township's law firm (collectively "defendants"). The basis for these claims was the defendants' alleged interferenc... More...

$0 (08-27-2001 - PA)