Max Mitchell

April 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Determining when a case is strong enough to prosecute and when a confidential informant might be too compromised to take the witness stand are decisions typically made behind closed doors.

By Max Mitchell

7 minute read

April 18, 2014 | Law.com

The family of Joe Paterno is using a decision issued last week in the Commonwealth Court as support for its case fighting the $60 million sanction the NCAA imposed on Penn State University.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

April 15, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

While state Attorney General Kathleen Kane has been locked in high-profile litigation with the lawyers for ex-Penn State president Graham Spanier for more than a year, it now appears that both sides have at least one thing in common: They have both recently called into question the work of former Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

April 15, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Arguments before the state Supreme Court in a case that is set to determine whether pharmacists have been overcharging attorneys for records focused on the 1998 amendments to the Medical Records Act, attorneys who attended the argument session said.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

April 15, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Columbia County Court of Common Pleas judge won't recuse himself from overseeing a medical malpractice suit that involves a man whom the judge had prosecuted in his former role as district attorney.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

April 15, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A home rule charter county cannot seek to abolish elected offices and move them to appointed positions without first electing a government study commission to examine the proposed changes, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

April 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Attorney General Kathleen Kane argued, as far back as seven months ago, that a political corruption investigation her office shuttered had been presented to federal prosecutors, who then passed on the case, recently unsealed documents outlining the investigation indicate.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

April 10, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court has called for a hearing on the validity of the $60 million fine that Penn State University agreed to pay to the NCAA under a consent decree.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

April 09, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The family of Joe Paterno has asked the Centre County Court of Common Pleas to allow them to subpoena Pepper Hamilton for documents related to the Freeh report.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

April 08, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

It's been more than six months since the state Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether to adopt the Restatement (Third) of Torts, and no decision appears to be forthcoming; however, attorneys who spoke with the Law Weekly say they aren't worried that the time gap is a signal of deadlock.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read