Max Mitchell

October 07, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Sunoco Pipeline will be allowed to use eminent domain to take property in Cumberland County for its Mariner East 2 pipeline project, a state court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 07, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Sunoco Pipeline will be allowed to use eminent domain to take property in Cumberland County for its Mariner East 2 pipeline project, a state court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 06, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Allegations of involvement in offensive emails against Justice J. Michael Eakin have rekindled controversy surrounding the state Supreme Court, but court watchers say it may not affect the actual work of the justices.

By Lizzy McLellan and Max Mitchell

6 minute read

October 06, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to take up the issue of whether wrongful-death and survival actions need to be bifurcated so one claim can be arbitrated while the other goes to a jury trial.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

October 05, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Allegations of involvement in offensive emails against Justice J. Michael Eakin have rekindled controversy surrounding the state Supreme Court, but court watchers say it may not affect the actual work of the justices.

By Lizzy McLellan and Max Mitchell

6 minute read

October 05, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas is ramping up efforts to clear out a backlog of cases dating as far back as 1980, and in the coming months the court will put more than 100 languishing cases on an expedited case-management schedule that will entail putting attorneys on 48-hour trial notice.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 05, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has retained Pittsburgh firm Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd—the same firm that represented Attorney General Kathleen Kane when she challenged the grand jury investigating her—to review the contents of numerous allegedly offensive emails linked to Justice J. Michael Eakin.

By Max Mitchell and Lizzy McLellan

6 minute read

October 04, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas is ramping up efforts to clear out a backlog of cases dating as far back as 1980, and in the coming months the court will put more than 100 languishing cases on an expedited case-management schedule that will entail putting attorneys on 48-hour trial notice.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 04, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has retained Pittsburgh firm Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd—the same firm that represented Attorney General Kathleen Kane when she challenged the grand jury investigating her—to review the contents of numerous allegedly offensive emails linked to Justice J. Michael Eakin.

By Max Mitchell and Lizzy McLellan

6 minute read

October 01, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether a former Pennsylvania chief justice should have recused himself from a capital case he was involved with while a prosecutor.

By Lizzy McLellan and Max Mitchell

6 minute read