Ben Seal

March 15, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to determine whether an interest arbitration award that set a minimum number of on-duty firefighters per shift should have been vacated because it infringed on the employer's managerial responsibilities.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

March 14, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a brief addressing issues to be settled ahead of his ethics trial later this month, Justice J. Michael Eakin said offensive emails sent to his private account but not forwarded on are "irrelevant, inadmissible and undeniably prejudicial."

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

March 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

When does public money lose its public character? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court sought an answer to that question last week as it heard reargument in a case over $3,800 of government funds a nonprofit corporation spent on mailings to endorse a union president.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

March 10, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Court of Judicial Discipline has ­denied Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin's motion seeking an en banc hearing at which he and the Judicial Conduct Board could present a proposed mediated resolution in his ethics case.

By Ben Seal

3 minute read

March 09, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The contours of the relationship among the oil and gas industry, the people of Pennsylvania and the state's government were at the heart of arguments Wednesday before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a case that could further invalidate portions of Act 13, which regulates the industry.

By Ben Seal

6 minute read

March 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin has asked the Court of Judicial Discipline en banc for permission to present a mediated resolution he reached with the Judicial Conduct Board that could forestall the need for a trial in his ethics case.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

March 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

As the date of her criminal trial draws closer, Attorney General Kathleen Kane has now argued that no judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas is able to fairly preside over her case because three of them have connections to her prosecution.

By Lizzy McLellan and Ben Seal

6 minute read

March 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

In its first argument session with three newly-elected justices, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to revisit a pair of cases it's handled in recent years and oversee the public censure of a sitting judge.

By Ben Seal

7 minute read

March 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

As county agencies around Pennsylvania begin to implement a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on juveniles unconstitutionally sentenced to life without parole, a raft of conflicts, concerns and complications have made clear that the process will require significant time and resources to complete.

By Max Mitchell and Ben Seal

9 minute read

March 05, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to review the appeal of an insurer seeking to protect a medical peer review it initiated for the purpose of deciding whether to maintain a business relationship with the doctors being reviewed.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read