Ben Seal

January 27, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Senate committee investigating Attorney General Kathleen Kane has recommended the full chamber wait to vote on her removal until the state Supreme Court rules on her petition to reinstate her suspended law license.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

January 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has begun to move toward impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Kathleen Kane. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution that would authorize the committee to investigate Kane's ­conduct in office.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

January 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Appeals

By Ben Seal

6 minute read

January 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A defendant doctor facing a wrongful-death action can take a supplemental deposition of a coroner who conducted an autopsy of the decedent, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

January 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The voting public has a rare opportunity this spring to help determine the future of the Pennsylvania judiciary, as a pair of ballot measures set to appear in the April 26 primary could amend the state constitution and have a significant impact on the courts.

By Ben Seal

5 minute read

January 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The fraud exception that allows spouses to testify against each other does not apply to testimony relating to confidential marital communications, the Superior Court has ruled.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

January 22, 2016 | New Jersey Law Journal

Church and State...and Federal. Whatever Lola Wants. Permission Slip.

By Ben Seal, Katheryn Hayes Tucker and Ross Todd

4 minute read

January 22, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered reargument in at least 26 cases that were argued before the justices in 2015 but left undecided by the end of the year. The cases represent more than one-third of those presented at oral argument last year.

By Ben Seal

6 minute read

January 21, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The relevance and admissibility of emails received—not sent or forwarded—by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin is an issue of first impression that will guide Eakin's ethics trial, his attorney said Thursday at a pretrial conference before the Court of Judicial Discipline.

By Ben Seal

4 minute read

January 20, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's attempted reinstatement should be rejected outright, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel argued Wednesday in a response to Kane's application for extraordinary relief filed last week.

By Ben Seal

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