Ben Present

October 12, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

With judicial elections in less than a month, the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Evaluation Commission has rated the four candidates running for vacant seats on the state Superior and Commonwealth courts.

By Ben Present

3 minute read

April 30, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Beginning today, lawyers will have the opportunity to bid on a deal potentially worth $1.85 billion that would privatize Philadelphia Gas Works, an aide to Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter has confirmed.

By Ben Present

3 minute read

February 13, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Jerry Sandusky can visit with, call, text, Skype and write to most of his grandchildren, a judge ruled Monday, as long as one of the children?s parents is supervising. The order comes as Senior Judge John M. Cleland also denied a request from state prosecutors to bring in a jury from outside Centre County to decide the embattled ex-coach?s fate. Cleland said the state had failed to establish facts that the ?most imperative grounds? support bringing in out-of-county jurors.

By Ben Present

1 minute read

March 28, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Marvin R. Halbert, a retired longtime Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge who was known for his cowboy hats and for directing and performing in plays in his courtroom, died Sunday. He was 90 years old.

By Ben Present

3 minute read

November 23, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two lawyers representing an alleged victim in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal have filed a complaint against The Second Mile, the charity through which the embattled former coach allegedly met several of his victims.

By Ben Present

2 minute read

February 20, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The NCAA has filed a federal lawsuit against Governor Tom Corbett and the treasurer and auditor general of Pennsylvania over legislation aiming to keep the NCAA's $60 million fine against Penn State, related to the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal, in the state of Pennsylvania.

By Ben Present

1 minute read

May 25, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Income earned on a Vietnam veteran's disability payments are subject to equitable distribution in a divorce, an appeals court ruled.

By Ben Present

4 minute read

November 14, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Just because a company is a cemetery doesn't make the cemetery a “cemetery company.” That was made clear in a recent decision from the Commonwealth Court in which a three-judge panel ruled that a Philadelphia cemetery, long past its last lot sale, did not have to pay the costs associated with running cemeteries that are currently open for business.

By Ben Present

1 minute read

July 12, 2013 | Law.com

Almost a year to the day after an internal investigation implicated former Penn State President Graham Spanier in covering up accusations against Jerry Sandusky, Spanier has filed a praecipe for writ of summons against Louis Freeh, the leader of the investigation, potentially paving the way for a suit against Freeh for libel, defamation or slander.

By Ben Present

3 minute read

February 29, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court, exercising its King's Bench powers, has ordered Rep. Samuel H. Smith, R-Jefferson, the speaker of the state House of Representatives, to issue special election writs for six vacancies in the House.

By Ben Present

1 minute read