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SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Washington, DC Case Summary Mancuso v. Chapel Valley Landscape Co. District of Columbia Court of Appeals 2024 D.C. App. LEXIS 259 Decided: July 18, 2024 Trial court properly granted summary judgment because the reconstruction of a garage broke the chain of causation in connection with a claim for lost value of a… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Virginia Case Summary Rolofson v. Fraser Virginia Court of Appeals No. 0828-23-4 Decided: July 30, 2024 Statements made concerning personal grievances are not immune from civil liability under Virginia’s Anti-SLAPP legislation. Background Rolofson and Fraser are Army officers who dated briefly in 2017 while stationed together. Following their relationship, Fraser made allegations… read more

TT&H Attorney, Patrick O’Grady, a partner in the firm’s Richmond, VA office, recently won the dismissal of a $24 million wrongful death case arising out of a shooting at a county fair.  Patrick represented the farm that owned the fairgrounds where the shooting occurred, as well as the family members that organized and ran the… read more

Javier A. Zurita and Richard C. DeFrancesco, both of TT&H’s Ambler office, recently won the dismissal of a construction defect case filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.  The dismissal came after two Amended Complaints, and after the client’s prior counsel had failed to file Preliminary Objections raising an arbitration provision contained in… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Pennsylvania Case Summaries Reading Anthracite Co. v. Oxenrider (WCAB) Nos. 120 CD 2023, 121 CD 2023, 126 CD 2023, & 170 CD 2023 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Decided: June 11, 2024 The WCJ has the discretion to correct mistakes in a Bureau document but is not compelled to by the Act. Background… read more