Ben Present

June 25, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Pennsylvania judge has declined to impose strict liability on the owner of a cow that entered a Pennsylvania highway and was struck by a man's car, resulting in injury to a passenger, the driver's spouse.

By Ben Present

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January 03, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Governor Tom Corbett and the state of Pennsylvania have sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association over sanctions it issued against Penn State University and its football program in response to the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal.

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September 26, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A York County jury has awarded $6 million to the estate of a woman who died from internal bleeding after a resident from an area hospital allegedly failed to properly diagnose and communicate her condition to her cardiologist, delaying the proper surgery.

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March 13, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

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January 02, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A government employer may withhold information about an employee's termination, the Commonwealth Court has ruled, if the record of the employee's firing contains prior disciplinary history.

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February 07, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Chester, Pa., ordinance making it illegal to loiter in a "high drug activity area" is too vague, a split panel of the Commonwealth Court has ruled, in addition to deciding the city had applied the law in a manner violating a teen's Fourth Amendment rights.

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6 minute read

March 19, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has rejected the wrongful termination appeal of a woman who was fired from her position as a licensed professional counselor at a Pennsylvania women's drug and alcohol abuse recovery center, reasoning that the termination — for not including a potential female patient who was also a registered sex offender in a program that included past female sex-abuse victims — did not violate public policy.

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6 minute read

June 12, 2012 | Law.com

A Lackawanna County judge has handed down a strongly worded opinion in favor of a Northeastern Pennsylvania plaintiffs attorney whose clients, he concluded, tried to avoid paying his contingency fee on a $4.6 million settlement by, among other things, filing a complaint with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel and threatening to call the police.

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7 minute read

February 02, 2012 | Legaltech News

As trial lawyers dabble in Facebook discovery, family law practitioners report that it's rare for a case to get through family court without the social network coming up.

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7 minute read

June 13, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

It's an image even those remotely familiar with the Penn State sex-abuse scandal know about: the Lasch building locker room.

By Ben Present

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