P.j. D'annunzio

August 25, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over whether criminal defendants who are ordered to pay court costs should be forced to do so without having their ability to pay assessed at a hearing.

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August 25, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The ruling "is enormously consequential for patients and health care providers," defense counsel in the case said.

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August 23, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The case involves Erie County Judge Stephanie Domitrovich's appeal of the county president judge's order disqualifying her from hearing a case involving Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, represented by her son, Aaron Susmarski.

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August 20, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Courts in high population areas are keeping an eye on the situation.

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August 19, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a precedential ruling, a split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said the lower courts in three suits involving restaurants seeking loss of business insurance coverage should not have refused to hear the cases.

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August 17, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Until now, neither the Supreme Court nor our court has confronted a Second Amendment claim challenging a restriction on firearms purchase or practice," Judge Cheryl Ann Krause wrote in the court's opinion for Drummond v. Robinson Township.

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August 16, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"In this case, our examination persuades us that a receiver ... functions as an 'arm of the court,'" the three-judge panel wrote.

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August 12, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

According to statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, "the defendants conspired to defraud investors in a limited partnership that was represented as an investment in cryptocurrency. Investor funds were not invested in the manner represented to investors but were rather diverted into the defendants' personal accounts and provided to entities having nothing to do with cryptocurrency."

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July 29, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

U.S. District Chief Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania said this case was distinguishable because the plaintiffs failed to prove that they were paying union dues against their will.

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July 29, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has allowed one of the first six bellwether cases in the Zostavax shingles vaccine multidistrict litigation against pharmaceutical giant Merck to proceed to a jury trial.

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