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Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Pennsylvania

Paid petition · Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, No. 1938 C.D. 2016 · judgment August 14, 2017


Certiorari denied · May 20, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

QUESTIONS ASKED Was Kanofsky Responsible for Building Damage? NO Is City of Bethlehem responsible for Damage to Building as Charged by Judge Leonard Zito? YES Did City Purposely Cite and harass Petitioner to get Building? YES Did Court delay access to transcripts of trials? YES Did Kanofsky have permission from City to Occupy Building? YES Did Kanofsky utilize building for ten years with flea market ? YES Did neighbor Saraceno make false libelous slanderous statements? YES Did City force entry into building several times? YES Did Judges collude with City to seize building from Petitioner? YES Did Judge BROBSON make false statements in the Kanofsky appeals? YES Is Judge Beltrami biased against Petitioner and has conflicts of interest? YES Did witnesses for City at trial make false scandalous testimony? YES Did the judges purposely schedule the trials at conflicting times to prevent Kanofsky attending? YES Was Kanofsky subjected to pressure from City over Decades to give up building? YES Were all of the conditions of the Conservatorship satisfied? NO Are some of the conditions still in litigation? YES .Did the President Judge LEAVITT of Commonwealth Court rule the lot is not blighted? YES Is the United States a co-defendant along with Kanofsky in the case? YES Was the adjacent lot blighted and satisfying the Conservatorship requirements? NO Is the property worth substantially more now with the recent completion that the giant office building and parking 1t 200 feet from Kanofsky's properties? YES Has Judge BROBSON consistently ruled against Kanofsky over many years including earlier in 2012 with The City of Philadelphia breaking into Kanofsky's property in Philadelphia? YES Is further litigation moot regarding Conservatorship proceedings until the this initial case is affirmed by the courts? YES Is it correct to have United States as a co-appellant with the Commonwealth as seemingly arranged by Judge BROBSON? NO Was the Northampton County Court correct in finally overturning Judge Beltrami's guilty verdict, jail sentence, and $625 K restitution order on the thirteen year old boy for his wrongful conviction of setting fire to a house, • • with this case being cited nationally by the Michigan University Innocence Project as one of the country's major travesties of Justice. YES Did City of Bethlehem attempt to Delay and cover up the court hearing on

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Alvin Kanofsky

For respondent
Matthew J. Deschler
City of Bethlehem Law Bureau

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 20 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 30 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
  3. Apr 17 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent The City of Bethlehem to respond filed.
  4. Aug 20 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 19, 2019)