Ben Present

June 18, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether an enrollment cap imposed by a Philadelphia charter school was valid before state law on the issue changed, but not afterward, as the Commonwealth Court has held.

By Ben Present

6 minute read

November 20, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Delaware County jury has awarded $125,000 to an obese nursing assistant and her husband after finding the hospital where she worked was negligent in allowing a broken chair, which ultimately collapsed beneath the woman, to stay in her patient's room. The incident occurred May 20, 2009.

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4 minute read

October 24, 2011 | Law.com

For those watching oral arguments before the state Supreme Court in Pittsburgh last week, it was probably hard to imagine a meaningful connection between LeBron James' Twitter activity and the century-old "rescue doctrine" on the justice's docket

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6 minute read

February 12, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A woman designated as a "principal driver" on her fiance's insurance policy was not a "named insured" under that policy, the state Superior Court has ruled, clearing the way for the woman to pursue a third-party tort claim unfettered by the policy's limited tort limitations.

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4 minute read

March 27, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The addresses and owners of Section 8 housing properties are public records, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

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6 minute read

January 29, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has revived a claim stemming from a fatal motor vehicle-pedestrian accident, ruling that the trial court improperly weighed the evidence before it and discounted possibly viable plaintiffs experts in dismissing the defendants on a grant of summary judgment.

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7 minute read

January 11, 2013 | Law.com

An attorney representing convicted child serial molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky told a judge Thursday that his client's trial was "structurally" unsound because trial counsel didn't have enough time to prepare for it.

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6 minute read

November 23, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Even without appellate case law to provide guidance on the discoverability of information on Facebook, the standard is becoming clear: Post at your own risk.

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4 minute read

December 13, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A former Penn State administrator facing criminal charges related to the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal has filed a praecipe for writ of summons against the university's former general counsel, Cynthia Baldwin, indicating he intends to sue her for legal malpractice.

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4 minute read

June 21, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Lehigh County judge has thrown out the city's ordinance that banned using a cellular phone while operating a vehicle, saying it was pre-empted by state law.

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5 minute read