Max Mitchell

May 27, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Ten days after hearing arguments in a case about whether or not college payments for adult children can be used as a credit to offset future child-support payments owed to minor children, the state Supreme Court dismissed the appeal as having been improvidently granted.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

May 27, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A company will not be liable for conspiracy claims stemming from an email sent by an employee to a former supervisor that contained her ex-husband's personal computer information obtained using spyware, the state Superior Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

May 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Unless Graham Spanier is required to file a complaint in his pending defamation suit against Louis Freeh, Freeh's lawyers will be prevented from seeking the case's removal to federal court, they argued to the state Superior Court on Wednesday.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

May 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Immediately following U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania's ruling overturning the state's ban on same-sex marriage, many Pennsylvania attorneys were exuberant about the decision, but several also wondered with some trepidation what comes next.

By Zack Needles, Max Mitchell and P.J. D'Annunzio

6 minute read

May 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The incoming Pennsylvania Bar Association president said that in the coming year he plans to make the state bar a more vital part of both the legal and general communities.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

May 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Nearly six months after a law allowing counties to abolish the office of jury commissioner went into effect, concerns that the law could cause confusion and lead to a variety of different jury management systems across the state appear to have been partially correct.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

May 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court, ruling that statutory employer immunity can be raised at any time during a litigation, has thrown out a $2 million verdict against a contractor.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

May 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

An insurance company's reliance on a peer review's recommendation to deny claims does not protect the insurer from liability for attorney fees if the peer review is found to be invalid, the state Superior Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

May 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Nearly six months after a law allowing counties to abolish the office of jury commissioner went into effect, concerns that the law could cause confusion and lead to a variety of different jury management systems across the state appear to have been partially correct.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

May 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

According to a complaint filed by plaintiff Robert D. Williams Jr., he suffered an electric shock as a result of misconduct by U.S. Mine Safety Health Administration inspectors during a surprise inspection.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read