Max Mitchell

February 20, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia judge is standing by her decision to allow the jury in an assault and false imprisonment suit to watch portions of a cellphone video taken immediately after an alleged altercation with police.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

February 17, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury has handed up a verdict awarding more than $5 million to two men who claimed they were injured when the burn unit at Temple University Hospital failed to properly treat their exposures to hydrofluoric acid.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

February 17, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Sources expressed uncertainty over the full impact of the revelation in court papers that suspended Municipal Court Judge Joseph O'Neill is expected to soon face federal criminal charges.

By Max Mitchell 
and P.J. D'Annunzio

4 minute read

February 13, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two weeks after the state Superior Court tossed numerous charges against three ex-Penn State administrators facing prosecution over their handling of sex-abuse allegations, the Office of Attorney General filed a request to have the case reargued before an en banc panel of the frontline appeals court.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

February 13, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether police should have to secure a warrant before performing a blood test on an unconscious person suspected of driving under the influence.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

February 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Ex-Penn State President Graham Spanier has officially sued the university and Louis J. Freeh over the Freeh report, which said that Spanier and others had been complicit in covering up reports of child sexual abuse by convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

February 10, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has rejected an effort by Philadelphia prosecutors to reinstate the conviction of Monsignor William J. Lynn, the first Catholic Church administrative official convicted of endangering the welfare of children abused by other priests.

By Max Mitchell

3 minute read

February 10, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The attorney representing the plaintiff in the ongoing pelvic-mesh trial in Philadelphia hammered the device makers during his closing argument for their alleged failure to tell doctors and patients about the erosion rates of the device and the risk of permanent harm.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

February 10, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury has handed up a $13.5 million award to a woman claiming she was permanently injured from a pelvic mesh device that eroded inside her.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

February 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

A former Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney attorney's agreement to pay $10,000 each time he might seek to alter his child's custody agreement is enforceable, the state Superior Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read