Ben Present

May 07, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Making their way before the state Supreme Court on expedited review, two lawsuits challenging Pennsylvania's mandatory judicial retirement age headline an oral argument session in Harrisburg scheduled to begin today.

By Ben Present

8 minute read

April 02, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury has returned a $1.7 million verdict — $1.5 million of which was a punitive damages award — in favor of a woman who claimed she was fired after reporting to company leaders that she believed her manager was engaged in drug activity and that he brought his daughter to a facility where convicted child predators were required to report.

By Ben Present

6 minute read

February 19, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The attorney on the defense side of a Philadelphia jury verdict of $34,000 from earlier this month said the award fell hundreds of thousands below the plaintiff's demand because the jury did not believe the plaintiff's theory that an operation she had stemmed from injuries suffered in the underlying rear-end motor vehicle accident.

By Ben Present

4 minute read

January 15, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Pennsylvania couple's claim that a realtor negligently misrepresented the condition of the septic system of a house they purchased has survived preliminary objections following a Lawrence County judge's ruling.

By Ben Present

5 minute read

January 14, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Republican state Senate majority leader announced Friday that he will introduce legislation that, if enacted, would abolish the Philadelphia Traffic Court and transfer its caseload to Philadelphia Municipal Court. The legislative push comes in the wake of the First Judicial District's internal report last Thanksgiving, which painted the court as having "two tracks of justice - one for the connected and another for the unwitting general public."

By Ben Present and Amaris Elliott-Engel

6 minute read

July 12, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has released his report on the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal enveloping Penn State University. Click here to view the report.

By Ben Present

1 minute read

July 10, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The findings of a team hired by Penn State to investigate university officials' response to sexual-abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will be released on Thursday, the leader of the investigation announced Tuesday.

By Ben Present

1 minute read

November 08, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Journalists and interested Pennsylvanians will soon have easier access to more financial information for the state's trio of appellate courts and their administrative offices, the state Supreme Court ordered Thursday.

By Ben Present

1 minute read

May 14, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on the second Post-Conviction Relief Act petition of Lisa Michelle Lambert, seeming to close the convicted murderer's decades-long series of appeals following her conviction.

By Ben Present

1 minute read

September 17, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The sentencing of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach convicted of a slew of sex crimes, will take place on October 9 immediately following a hearing to determine whether he is a sexually violent predator.

By Ben Present

1 minute read