Ben Present

November 29, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

The brother of a deceased woman will have to make his case in federal court that a portrait of his sister painted by Andy Warhol should not be returned to a family trust created by his late sister and her husband, an Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge said

By Ben Present

4 minute read

November 06, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Just over three months after the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts issued a report urging the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas to re-evaluate whether it should be assigning the majority of custody cases to its full-time GAL, Danielle M. Ross, the county renewed Ross' contract, potentially worth about $38,000 per year.

By Zack Needles and Ben Present

9 minute read

December 19, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

For two hours Friday, a key witness in the Penn State sex abuse scandal answered questions from a state prosecutor and attorneys for two ousted high-ranking officials — now both headed to trial — about his recollection of the scandal's most scrutinized allegations and his efforts to report them to the administrators.

By Ben Present

7 minute read

August 17, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

An attorney representing former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley argued Thursday that prosecutors had lodged an "unorthodox" perjury case against her client regarding a conclusion he made about allegations involving convicted serial child-sex abuser Jerry Sandusky.

By Ben Present

5 minute read

January 10, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

What happens when a jury's foreperson stumbles on the only criminal charge for which the jury was apparently on its way to rendering a verdict?

By Ben Present

7 minute read

October 18, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

A divided en banc panel of the Commonwealth Court has ruled the City of Philadelphia issued a fatally defective notice to a company that owed it more than $25,000, reversing the default judgment rendered by a Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court.

By Ben Present

5 minute read

March 07, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Less than two weeks after the Pennsylvania Superior Court directed litigation between Penn State University and one of its insurance companies to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Penn State has sued the insurer in Centre County, demanding a jury for issues triable by one.

By Ben Present

4 minute read

November 17, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has approved the assignment of a Westmoreland County senior judge with "no known connections" to Penn State or The Second Mile charity to preside over the preliminary hearing of embattled former coach Jerry Sandusky, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts announced Wednesday.

By ben present

3 minute read

April 26, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A dispute between Penn State and its insurance company over who should cover the costs of a civil suit stemming from the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal is set to be litigated in the First Judicial District, following a Philadelphia judge's ruling the forum was not inconvenient for the university.

By Ben Present

6 minute read

June 11, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has ruled that the owner and operator of a man-made Pennsylvania lake is not liable in a boating accident in which two men were injured and their vessel was damaged.

By Ben Present

5 minute read