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March 10, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Argument in Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants follows the Superior Court order requiring defendant St. Clair Hospital to produce to the plaintiffs the unredacted credentialing file of defendant Dr. Carmen Petraglia.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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March 08, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Allowance of appeal was granted by the justices in a March 2 order in former Chicago Bears defensive back Craig Steltz's lawsuit against a surgeon who treated him for a hernia and allegedly failed to disclose the existence of a muscle tear in his leg.

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March 03, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Federal prosecutors allege that Dougherty's nephew, electrician Gregory Fiocca—also charged Wednesday—threatened his project manager, identified in court papers as R.P., for reducing his pay over work performance issues.

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March 02, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia stemming from a lawsuit filed against it over an allegedly faulty finding of child abuse that led to the separation of a family.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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March 01, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Under the Pennsylvania Constitution, a justice of the Supreme Court must retire at the end of the calendar year in which they reach the age of 75. Saylor is set to retire Dec. 31.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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February 25, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The fact that litigation was foreseen, in itself, does not preclude discovery."

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February 24, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former Philadelphia Family Court Judge Lyris Younge is set to face sanctioning after the original hearing date was pushed back at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly a year ago.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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February 23, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Tulante, now a partner at Dechert in Philadelphia, spent two years as the city's general counsel from 2016 to 2018, overseeing an office of 220 lawyers in the Philadelphia Law Department. Prior to that he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, where he handled investigations and prosecutions of white-collar crime and other offenses.

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February 22, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Szwerc argued Pennsylvania's Wage Payment and Collection Law imposed no time limit on an employee judgment winner's request for attorney fees and costs, according to Superior Court Judge Megan McCarthy King's opinion.

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February 22, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"Adopting a clear rule that will be easily understood by the parties and can be consistently applied by the courts, we hold that where the maturity of the debt has been validly accelerated by commencement of a foreclosure action, the noteholder's voluntary withdrawal of that action revokes the election to accelerate, absent the noteholder's contemporaneous statement to the contrary," Chief Judge Janet DiFiore wrote in the court's majority opinion.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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