Flaxman v. Burnett

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the Authority is a local agency
• declining to transfer cause of action to Commonwealth Court where parties did not raise objection to Superior Court’s assumption of jurisdiction, as required by Pa.R.A.P. 741(a)
• declining to transfer cause of action to Commonwealth Court where parties did not raise objection to Superior Court’s assumption of jurisdiction, as required by Pa.R.A.P. 741(a)
• following Restatement (Second) of Torts § 577(1) definition of “publication” in defamation action and explaining that “publication occurs whenever a defamatory statement is communicated to another person”
• declining to transfer cause of action involving transit authority to Commonwealth Court where parties did not raise objection to Superior Court’s assumption of jurisdiction as required by Pa.R.A.P. 741(a)
• forum non conveniens motion properly granted where, inter alia, all evidence was located in another county

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jennifer Cushman v. Trans Union Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1997-06-09· cited 216×
• Marchese v. Umstead
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 34×
• McCaskill v. Philadelphia Housing Authority
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-21· cited 21×
• Page v. Ekbladh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-13· cited 16×
• Martin v. Finley
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2018-10-12· cited 6×
• Fox, J. v. Smith, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-23· cited 5×
• W. Reed v. P. Brown and Borough of Colwyn
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-13· cited 4×
• Wissinger v. Brady
  Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-11-03· cited 1×
• Conway v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-22
• Gates v. Angle
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2002-05-16

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Feingold v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-18· cited 253×
• Klebach v. Mellon Bank, N.A.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-12· cited 44×
• Northampton County Area Community College v. Dow Chemical, U.S.A.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-02· cited 43×
• Penox Technologies, Inc. v. Foster Medical Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-16· cited 30×
• Brown v. Delaware Valley Transplant Program
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-08· cited 23×
• Vogel v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-20· cited 19×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-03· cited 6×