Tupitza & Associates, P.C. obtained an $813,000 verdict for clients on June 21, 2017, against stucco remediation contractor Atlantic Remediation and Restoration Contractors, LLC. (“ARRC”) and its principal, Harry Weatherby. The ver...
Read MoreTownship Sues Sunoco Pipeline,L.P.
2/17/2017 West Goshen Township, in Chester County has filed a complaint with the Public Utilities Commission against Sunoco Pipeline, LP over the Mariner East pipeline. The suit alleges a breach of an agreement with the township. The Pipelines Sunoc...
Read MoreCommon Mistake Leads to Quashing of Partition Appeal
Feb 10, 2017 The Superior Court just quashed a Partition case, based on a common misunderstanding of the appellate rules. In Zablocki v. Beining, 2017 Pa. Super 32, an appeal was taken after the Court adopted the Report of a Master and Ordered the ...
Read MoreCFPB issues $3.5M Kickback Fine
February 2, 2017 The CFPB, (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) this week ordered Prospect Mortgage to pay a $3.5 million fine for improper mortgage referrals. The CFPB called it a kickback scheme. There are three reasons why the mortgage company ...
Read MoreCourt Gives Property Owners a Win in Oil/Gas
WIN FOR PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENTS – PA SUPREME COURT LANDMARK DECISION OPENS THE DOOR FOR CHALLENGES AGAINST THE OIL/GAS INDUSTRY – By M. Bobbie Kalia, Esq., September 29, 2016 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday struck down portions of the S...
Read MoreGroup moves to Stop Sunoco Pipeline.
September 26, 2016, Delaware County, PA. The Middletown (Delaware County, PA) Coalition for Community Safety is presenting an emergency application for an Injunction today to delay the vote by the Township of Middletown, in connection with the gran...
Read MoreEPA Questions Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
In July, 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a four-page letter to FERC (the Federal Energy Regulation Commission), raising questions about Transco’s Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, proposed to be built through Pennsylvan...
Read MoreDEP Notice to Sunoco – Mariner East II Pipeline
DEP Issues Technical Deficiency Notice for Chester County Chapter 105 Application of Sunoco Pipeline for Mariner East II. On September 6, 2016, the PA DEP issued a Technical Deficiency Notice to Sunoco Pipeline, L.P. regarding its Mariner East II Pip...
Read MoreSpecial Alert- Property Owners Signing Pipeline Easements
Our firm represents many landowners who have had to deal with new pipeline easements. Whether it is the Sunoco Mariner East series of lines, the Columbia Lines, Eastern Shore Natural Gas, the Williams Atlantic Sunrise, Constitution Pipeline or any o...
Read MorePipeline Eminent Domain Condemnation
Pipeline Eminent Domain Condemnation Action on this issue is needed immediately. Most of the amicable settlements between Sunoco Pipeline, L.P., and property owners over right of way agreements related to the Mariner East pipelines are on the book...
Read More