Cases
Significant Representative Matters: Obtained Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversal of the Pennsylvania Superior Court in a high-profile defamation case in which plaintiff, a former government official
community leader, claimed that she
her husb
were defamed by newspaper story that characterized their multi-count complaints suit against a rap artist
record companies as a suit for harm to sex life based on a cursory loss of consortium claim included in the complaint.
Persuaded the Third Circuit to reverse the federal district court's ruling in a subsequent civil rights case that our attorney client, who brought an ex parte motion to a different federal judge under an international child abduction act treaty that resulted in the seizure of a child from his natural father, could not be liable on ground that he negligently misled the district court to order the seizure without the need of a pre-deprivation hearing.
Persuaded the Pennsylvania Superior court to affirm a defense verdict in a liquor liability case where the trial court had allowed the admission of records involving juvenile offenses
evidence of other incidents of illegal drug use.
Representative Cases: Fazio v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 2012 PA Super 273 (Pa. Super. 2012)
Huertas v. Galaxy Asset Mgmt., 641 F.3d 28(3d Cir. 2011)
Walsh v. Krantz, 386 Fed. Appx. 334 (3d Cir. Pa. 2010) cert. denied 131 S. Ct. 801 (U.S. 2010)
Moecker v. Greenspoon, Marder, et al, 346 Fed. Appx. 430 (11th Cir. 2009)
Br
ow Chrysler Jeep Co. v. DataScan Techs., 2009 U.S.App. LEXIS 22680 (3d Cir. Sept. 25, 2009)
Benkoski v. Wasilewski, 584 F.3d 1102 (3d Cir. 2009)
Campuzano-Burgos v. Midl
Credit Management, Inc., 550 F.3d 294 (3d Cir. Dec. 16, 2008)
Wise v. Am. Gen. Life Ins. Co., 459 F.2d 443 (3d Cir. 2006)
Vitalo v. Cabot Corp., 399 F.3d 536 (3d Cir. 2005)
Ruiz v. New Garden Twp., 376 F.3d 203 (3d Cir. 2004)
Egervary v. Young, 366 F.3d 238 (3d Cir. 2004) cert. denied 125 S.Ct. 868 (2005)
DeBiec v. Cabot Corp., 352 F.3d 117 (3d Cir. 2003)
Tucker v. Phila. Daily News, 848 A.2d 113 (Pa. 2004), cert. denied __ U.S. __, 127 S.Ct. 154 (2006)
Tuscarora Wayne Mut. Ins. Co. v. Kadlubosky, 889 A.2d 557 (Pa. Super. 2005)
Schweikert v. St. Luke's Hosp. of Bethlehem, 886 A.2d 265 (Pa. Super. 2005)
Pulliam v. Fannie, 850 A.2d 636 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2004), rearguement denied 2004 Pa.Super. LEXIS 1479 (2004), appeal denied, 879 A.2d 783 (Pa. 2005)
