Max Mitchell

March 28, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court will let stand a decision tossing a case against several attorneys and their firms after the state Superior Court found that the action lacked the proper certificates of merit because the case dealt with legal malpractice, and not wrongful use of civil proceedings.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

March 25, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The war of words between the state attorney general, former state prosecutors and the Philadelphia district attorney has been escalating over the past few days, and if the public bickering becomes a trend, it won't be good for prosecutors, attorneys who spoke with The Legal said.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

March 25, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court is the wrong court to hear a challenge regarding a judge's administrative duties, the intermediate court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

March 25, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The attorney for a youth who was adjudicated as delinquent for murders he allegedly committed at age 11 argued before the state Supreme Court that filing a post-dispositional motion was unnecessary for preserving an appeal based on the weight of the evidence.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 25, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Supreme Court has remanded the first mental-mental case to the Commonwealth Court for review under a new standard that many attorneys who spoke with the Law Weekly said represents a shift in an area of workers' compensation law that has been increasingly difficult for claimants.

By Max Mitchell

7 minute read

March 25, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Does ownership or use indicate whether a facility is for public benefit?

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

March 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Prosecutors have taken strong issue with arguments made by ex-Penn State President Graham Spanier, which they characterized as "inaccurate" and "gratuitously disparaging."

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

March 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Despite having 113 audio and video recordings of leading state officials from Philadelphia allegedly taking bribes and kickbacks, the case against the officials was dead in the water before she took office, state Attorney General Kathleen Kane said in a press conference held Monday.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

March 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has ruled that a defendant's appeal has been waived because its statement of errors was filed three days late, even though it had been accepted by the trial court.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

March 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

An excess insurance carrier involved in a multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from a 1998 Montgomery County service station gasoline leak has a duty to defend a pipe manufacturer involved in the settlement on subsequent cross-claims, the state Superior Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read