Mitchell

October 24, 2007 | Daily Report Online

MOBILE, Ala. AP - A federal appeals court Wednesday granted a stay of execution for Daniel Lee Siebert, a terminally ill killer who claimed that his cancer medication would counteract with a lethal injection, inflicting unnecessary pain.In granting the stay, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta reversed an order by U.

By Garry Mitchell

4 minute read

September 17, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state Superior Court has sent a wrongful death suit back to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas after the trial court ruled New York was the more appropriate forum, in part, because of the city's overburdened court system.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

September 06, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state's Senate Republican Caucus has sovereign immunity, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

6 minute read

January 25, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Disparate treatment employment discrimination claims are commonly analyzed either as "pretext" or "mixed-motive" cases.

By ROBERT B. MITCHELL

5 minute read

October 14, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A malpractice case against several attorneys and their firms has been tossed after the state Superior Court determined that the case dealt with legal malpractice, not wrongful use of civil proceedings, and therefore lacked the proper certificates of merit.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

February 10, 2012 | The Recorder

A recent decision puts carriers between a rock and a hard place in pre-litigation settlements of wrongful death claims, explains Mitchell Tilner of Horvitz & Levy.

By Mitchell C. Tilner

9 minute read

October 01, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Documents created by nursing staff after receiving an incident report are safe from disclosure during medical malpractice discovery under the Peer Review Protection Act, an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

4 minute read

May 08, 2013 | New York Law Journal

In their Transactional Real Estate column, Mitchell L. Berg and Peter E. Fisch, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, write that most courts apply a "business judgment" test to a debtor's decision to reject an executory contract whereby, in order to obtain court approval, a debtor must demonstrate that in the "best 'business judgment'" of the debtor, it would be "beneficial . . . to the estate" to reject the contract.

By Mitchell L. Berg and Peter E. Fisch

12 minute read

October 07, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently agreed to settle a medical malpractice wrongful-death suit for $2.4 million in Dauphin County. The plaintiff alleged that the hospital failed to properly diagnose a woman's vulvar cancer.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read

October 22, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The window of time to file a protest to a state contract began to run when the would-be challenger filed its proposal, not when the state approved a rival offer, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Max Mitchell

5 minute read