UPDATE: FORMATION OF THE PHILADELPHIA LAND BANK

In January of 2014, Mayor Nutter predicted that it could take a year for the City to organize its Land Bank, which had been approved by a December 13, 2013 ordinance.  His prediction is proving accurate.  The Land Bank is now scheduled for full implementation by ‘early’ 2015.

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Attorney Paul J. Toner of Orphanides & Toner, LLP, Advances Client’s Position with a Superior Court Decision Ruling that Planned Communities Developed Without a Homeowners Association Could Not Be Forcibly Reorganized into a Planned Community Governed by a Modern Homeowners Association

On May 1, 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued a decision that upheld the legal structure of a private planned community and ruled that a newly formed association of lot owners could not be recognized as a mandatory unit owners association.

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Commonwealth Court Deems Property Tax Rebate Rule Invalid under State and Federal Constitutions

On March 14, 2014, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania invalidated a requirement in the Senior Citizens Property Tax and Rent Rebate Assistance Act that had prohibited the estate of a deceased senior citizen from applying for a tax rebate where the decedent did not live into the succeeding calendar year.  In C. Muscarella, Executor of the Estate of J. Carbo, __ A.3d __ (Pa.Cmwlth.2014), the Commonwealth Court held that the requirement violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the state and federal Constitutions.  

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