This appeal asks whether a second class township's sale of real property to a municipal authority which then conveyed the property to a pre-determined third party violated a requirement of The Second Class Township Code (Township Code)1 that real property valued in excess of $1,500 be publicly advertised and sold by the township to the highest bidder. More particularly, Redstone Township (Township) sold 5.7 acres of land (Subject Property) to the Redstone Township Sewer Authority (Sewer...  

Kyu Son Yi, D.V.M., petitions for review of an adjudication of the State Board of Veterinary Medicine (Board) revoking his license to practice veterinary medicine on the basis of malpractice and inadequate patient record-keeping. In rendering this adjudication, the Board rejected the substance of the prosecution staff's expert testimony and, instead, used the knowledge of its individual Board members, who are veterinarians, to make findings of fact critical to its adjudication. The principal...  

Eric Boron, the owner of Adultland XXX, a sexually oriented business, appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence County (trial court) suspending Adultland's business license for one year. The trial court affirmed the decision of the Pulaski Township Board of Supervisors (Township Supervisors) that Adultland violated a township ordinance that forbids sexually oriented businesses from conducting business on a state recognized holiday. In this case, we consider whether this...  

Before this Court is an appeal of Robert Bingnear (Claimant) from an order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Board) dated January 5, 2008. The Board held that the City of Chester (Employer) was permitted through its Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) to reduce Claimant's pension benefits in an amount equal to 100% of Claimant's workers' compensation benefits. We vacate the Board's order and remand for the reasons that follow... Claimant filed a Petition to Review Benefit Offset. No...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is AFFIRMED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is hereby AFFIRMED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is hereby AFFIRMED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is denied...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is denied...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is denied...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is AFFIRMED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, rephrased for clarity, is:... Whether an insurer is entitled to reimbursement of defense costs when a court has determined that the insurer had no duty to defend the insured and the insurer had reserved its right to reimbursement in a "reservation of rights" letter?...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is denied...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is denied...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, the per curiam order of the Commonwealth Court is AFFIRMED...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, Rules 1915.1 and 1915.2, the Notes to Rules 1915.3, 1915.5, 1915.6 and 1915.12 and the Explanatory Comment to Rule 1915.15 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure are amended as attached hereto... This order shall be processed in accordance with Pa.R.J.A. No. 103(b) and shall be effective immediately...  

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 2008, Harry S. Cohen, Esquire, Allegheny County, and Jack M. Stover, Esquire, Dauphin County, are hereby appointed as members of the Civil Procedural Rules Committee for a term expiring June 30, 2011...