Ben Present

June 05, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The alleged victims accusing former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse will be named in open court, the judge presiding over the coach's case has ruled.

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January 31, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The estate of a woman suing a Scranton doctor for malpractice does not have to pay the attorney fees and travel costs of the doctor and the hospital it is suing stemming from an out-of-state deposition of the estate's medical expert, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.

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5 minute read

January 04, 2012 | Legaltech News

A Philadelphia judge's denial of an insurance company's request to probe a Facebook page in an injury case tips the social media scale in favor of the plaintiffs bar.

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5 minute read

June 19, 2012 | Law.com

The jury deciding the fate of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will be sequestered during deliberations, the judge presiding over his trial said Monday.

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9 minute read

June 26, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over whether a man accused of child rape may present an expert to contradict state evidence supporting his alleged victim testifying outside of court.

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5 minute read

February 12, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

As H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr. begins what new state Attorney General Kathleen Kane promised will be a complete examination of her predecessors' handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case, sources in the white-collar bar said the environment in which the original investigators worked will be just as important as the actual decisions they made.

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6 minute read

December 18, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Montgomery County jury has handed down a defense verdict in a case where the plaintiff alleged his doctor performed an "experimental" and less invasive surgical procedure on his back in lieu of a more invasive surgery that another doctor had recommended.

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5 minute read

October 02, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia trial judge misapplied Pennsylvania criminal voir dire procedure when she required a man to use peremptory challenges before exhausting his challenges for cause, the Superior Court has ruled.

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October 25, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Defense attorney Philip J. Mohr pointedly told the Pennsylvania Supreme Court during oral arguments in Pittsburgh Wednesday that its decision in Reott v. Asia Trend Inc. could change the "entire landscape of products liability cases" in this state.

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June 25, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Bystanders injured as a result of high-speed police chases have another Pennsylvania decision to cite in favor of setting aside governmental immunity in tort claims against police departments following a recent Commonwealth Court decision — even if it isn't the police car that hits them.

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