Max Mitchell

September 09, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

According to a pretrial memorandum from the plaintiffs, 54-year-old plaintiff Debbie McAdams exited a taxicab at Ninth Street and Washington Avenue in the Italian Market in Philadelphia. As she walked on the sidewalk outside M&L Donuts, which was owned by defendants Michael Chan and Linda Ma Chan, McAdams, who was working as an assistant bank manager, tripped and fell. McAdams allegedly sustained a hand injury.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

September 02, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

According to court documents, on Nov. 19, 2009, Brian Mark Patton, a 37-year-old Pennsylvania resident who worked as a corrections officer but was serving a tour of duty as a reservist for the U.S. Navy, was driving an SUV along a two-lane road in Kuwait with David Morgan, who was also a corrections officer serving a tour of duty, as passenger.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

September 02, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The uphill battle defendants faced when trying to get their cases moved from a plaintiff's chosen venue has been leveled somewhat thanks to the state Supreme Court's decision last month in Bratic v. Rubendall, according to attorneys who spoke with the Law Weekly.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

September 02, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has declined to hear argument on whether online commenters have a constitutional right to falsely attribute nonsatirical postings to someone with direct connection to the subject matter.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

September 02, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument on whether a plaintiff may state a claim for vicarious liability against a hospital for the alleged conduct of an emergency room doctor by pointing out that she was part of an emergency response team and had not previously treated the patient.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

August 29, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry, a Texas-based firm with a Pennsylvania presence, is projecting a rebound in 2014 after seeing declines in gross revenue, profits per equity partner and revenue per lawyer in 2013.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

August 26, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Subsequent home buyers may not sue for breach of an implied warranty of habitability, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

August 26, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether a lease entitles an oil and gas company to a 62-acre property, despite the fact that the lease was entered into when the landowners only had title to half the property and payment only covered 31 acres.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

August 26, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A health care company was not barred from arguing in a workers' compensation action that a former employee was acting outside the course of his employment, even though the company had admitted in a previous civil action that the former employee had been acting in the course of his employment, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

August 26, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The products liability bar has resigned itself to the confused state of the law in Pennsylvania since the rift between the state and federal courts emerged about five years ago.

By Saranac Hale Spencer, Max Mitchell and P.J. D'Annunzio

9 minute read