Max Mitchell
Max Mitchell is ALM's Regional Managing Editor for The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, Delaware Business Court Insider and Delaware Law Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @MMitchellTLI. His email is [email protected].
September 15, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Carriers Off the Hook in Urban Outfitters SuitsInsurers for Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie do not have to defend the clothing stores against three class action lawsuits over their collection of ZIP code information, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
By Max Mitchell
5 minute read
September 15, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
ABA, DOJ Weigh in on Luzerne Defender OfficeThe government and several national legal organizations have thrown their support behind two indigent defendants who are arguing before the state Supreme Court that the low funding levels of the Luzerne County Public Defender's Office constituted a deprivation of their right to effective counsel.
By Max Mitchell
6 minute read
September 15, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Justices to Eye Unnamed Beneficiaries' StandingThe state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over the need to sign trust amendments naming beneficiaries before they have standing to sue an attorney who prepared the papers.
By Max Mitchell
5 minute read
September 15, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Justices Hear Police Officers' Insurance Fraud ArgumentsArguments before the state Supreme Court in a case involving two injured police officers claiming they were the victims of an insurance fraud scheme focused on the requirements for waiving uninsured and underinsured motorist policies for a commercial fleet vehicle.
By Max Mitchell
4 minute read
September 14, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Justices Hear Police Officers' Insurance Fraud ArgumentsArguments before the state Supreme Court in a case involving two injured police officers claiming they were the victims of an insurance fraud scheme focused on the requirements for waiving uninsured and underinsured motorist policies for a commercial fleet vehicle.
By Max Mitchell
4 minute read
September 14, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Justices to Eye Unnamed Beneficiaries' StandingThe state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over the need to sign trust amendments naming beneficiaries before they have standing to sue an attorney who prepared the papers.
By Max Mitchell
5 minute read
September 14, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
ABA, DOJ Weigh in on Luzerne Defender OfficeThe government and several national legal organizations have thrown their support behind two indigent defendants who are arguing before the state Supreme Court that the low funding levels of the Luzerne County Public Defender's Office constituted a deprivation of their right to effective counsel.
By Max Mitchell
6 minute read
September 14, 2015 | Law.com
Amazon, UPenn Contest Liability for Student SuicideAmazon and the University of Pennsylvania have argued in court papers that they cannot be held liable for a student's death by suicide using chemicals she allegedly bought through the online retailing giant because the death was not reasonably foreseeable.
By Max Mitchell
5 minute read
September 12, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Amazon, UPenn Contest Liability for Student SuicideAmazon and the University of Pennsylvania have argued in court papers that they cannot be held liable for a student's death by suicide using chemicals she allegedly bought through the online retailing giant because the death was not reasonably foreseeable.
By Max Mitchell
5 minute read
September 11, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Justices Hear Death-Penalty Moratorium DebateGov. Tom Wolf's decision to grant a reprieve to a death row inmate—and announcement that he would grant more while a study of death penalty procedures was ongoing—should be set aside as an unconstitutional open-ended suspension of his duty to enforce the law, prosecutors argued to the state Supreme Court on Thursday.
By Max Mitchell
4 minute read
