Max Mitchell

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

August 26, 2014 | International Edition

When Virginia resident Morgan Lee Hanks' Mitsubishi Pajero collided with the Dodge Durango driven by Pennsylvania native Brian Mark Patton, who died in the accident, the ensuing motor vehicle litigation was anything but ordinary.

By Max Mitchell

7 minute read

August 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin will not need to send apologies written on photographs of herself in handcuffs to members of the state judiciary, the state Superior Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

August 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has not been giving trial court judges the proper discretion to grant venue transfers when witnesses hail from distant counties, the state Supreme Court said in a decision examining a 17-year-old standard regarding forum non conveniens.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

August 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

An $18.5 million judgment against Genuardi's Family Markets and Safeway Inc. need not be reduced to present value, an en banc panel of the state Superior Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

August 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The city of Pittsburgh's failure to show that reducing a fire captain's workers' compensation benefits would not cause financial hardship does not mean the city cannot reduce the benefits to recoup prior payments, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

August 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

An attorney who declined to undergo a chemical test following his arrest for allegedly driving under the influence will still lose his driver's license for a year, even though he offered to alternatively take breathalyzer and urinalysis tests, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read