Max Mitchell

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

August 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A quality-of-care review conducted by a plaintiff's health insurance carrier to evaluate an orthopedic surgeon in a medical malpractice action will not be barred from discovery under the Peer Review Protection Act, a trial court judge has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

7 minute read

August 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

When the state Supreme Court ordered the attorney general to produce discoverable documents in the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission corruption cases earlier this month, Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille said that office still needs to review approximately 30 million subpoenaed electronic documents for privilege purposes before turning them over to the defendants.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

August 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Eight months after Duane Morris announced plans to create a Shanghai office, the office has formally opened for business, the firm has announced.

By Max Mitchell

2 minute read

August 18, 2014 | Law.com

The federal judge presiding over Louis J. Freeh's attempts to remove a possible defamation case against him from state to federal court has ordered Freeh to show why the federal court has jurisdiction to take the case.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read