Alexa Woronowicz

August 21, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two state senators are teaming up to introduce a proposed constitutional amendment to clarify the Senate of Pennsylvania's role to advise and consent to nominations made by the state's chief executive.

By Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus

2 minute read

August 14, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Senate Aging and Youth Committee, chaired by state Sen. Judy Ward, R-Blair, and Sen. Maria Collett, D-Montgomery, held a hearing Aug. 8 to gather information about the critical roles played by children's advocacy centers across Pennsylvania.

By Pennsylvania Senate Republicans

3 minute read

August 07, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, on July 28 introduced legislation to establish Pennsylvania's first statewide registry of persons found to be substantiated perpetrators of abuse, neglect, abandonment or exploitation of senior citizens.

By Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus

2 minute read

July 31, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

"We recognize the perspective of the court and appreciate the necessity for educational opportunities for all children throughout the commonwealth. This ruling provides an opportunity for meaningful changes to move Pennsylvania's education system into the 21st century," Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, and Majority Leader Joe Pittman, R-Armstrong, said in a statement.

By Pennsylvania Republican and Democratic caucuses

3 minute read

July 24, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway holding that a plaintiff whose cause of action did not arise in Pennsylvania could sue a corporate entity that did not have Pennsylvania citizenship in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas unsettles decades of personal jurisdiction jurisprudence.

By Andrea M. Kirshenbaum

7 minute read

July 24, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Democratic lawmaker from Pittsburgh resigned July 19 from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, moving the razor-thin majority her party has held this year to a partisan tie with the Legislature mired in a budget stalemate.

By The Associated Press

3 minute read

July 24, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

In Philadelphia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a September 2022 ruling by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika of the District of Delaware allowing Florida-based U.S. Sugar Corp. to buy financially troubled Imperial Sugar Co.

By Carl W. Hittinger and Alyse F. Stach

5 minute read

July 17, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a bipartisan vote, the Pennsylvania House on July 7 passed state Rep. Joe Ciresi's legislation (H.B 1422) that would modernize Pennsylvania's charter school law to specifically address cyber charter schools to ensure transparency, accountability and fiscal responsibility.

By Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus

3 minute read

July 10, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Pennsylvania state court on June 27 rejected the latest Republican effort to throw out the presidential battleground state's broad mail-in voting law that has become a GOP target following former President Donald Trump's baseless claims about election fraud.

By Marc Levy, The Associated Press

2 minute read

July 03, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

On June 27, the Senate voted to pass a bill sponsored by Sens. Anthony Williams, D-Delaware; Lisa Baker, R-Luzerne; and Camera Bartolotta, R-Beaver, that will reform Pennsylvania's probation system.

By Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus

1 minute read