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March 30, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Philadelphia Bar Association's Judicial Commission has released its ratings for 2021 judicial candidates for state appellate courts and the city's common pleas and municipal courts.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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March 26, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Attorney General Josh Shapiro sued the defendants under the UTPCPL because together they allegedly "impaired the competitive process which deprived Pennsylvania landowners from receiving an acreage signing bonus and royalty which would have been competitive and fair absent the agreement to allocate territories."

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March 25, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

In upholding the dismissal of a lawsuit over underinsured motorist coverage filed by a man and a woman hit by a car while riding their motorcycle, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit drew a clear line between two major Pennsylvania insurance law decisions.

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March 25, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal appeals court that upheld seven of former Congressman Bob Brady's political adviser Ken Smukler's nine convictions related to election law violations has granted a new trial on the two convictions it tossed.

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March 22, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Lucretia Clemons is set to take the reins of the city's criminal courts as supervising judge, replacing Judge Leon Tucker as he moves to the Commerce Court bench.

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March 19, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"You don't need a newfangled, digital society law to deal with the Bucks County case," said Anita Allen, a professor of privacy law and ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. "But if we're going to live in a world where deepfaking is available to everyone, we might well need state and federal statutes that deal with deepfakes and dealing with false images or facsimiles of people."

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March 18, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

While the candidates shied away from making personal promises or indications of how they would rule if elected to the Supreme Court bench, they did offer insights into their ways of thinking and what made them who they are.

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March 17, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Monroe County judge has rejected a former firefighter's request to have him reinstated to the department along with attorney fees based on claims that he was dismissed from his position based on racial prejudice.

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March 15, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling that three Pennsylvania legislators were not entitled to immunity from a suit that alleged the trio disrupted the sale of state land to a group intending to use it for a Muslim boarding school.

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March 12, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"If you look at the U.S. attorney's offices in Philadelphia and Delaware, they're half women. It begs the question: if it's 50-50, why haven't there been any female U.S. attorneys?" says former federal prosecutor Beth Moskow-Schnoll.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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