P.j. D'annunzio

July 27, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"If allowed to stand, this [state Superior Court] ruling would place Pennsylvania in a tiny minority of states, since 45 states and the District of Columbia admit compliance evidence in product liability trials," the defense argued in its petition for allowance of appeal in Sullivan v. Werner.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 26, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"I'm not sure if it's going to have an impact on COVID litigation as a whole only because it's styled as a memorandum and technically not precedential. Although I'm sure in other similar cases it'll be cited," counsel for the Pittsburgh restaurant The Crack'd Egg said.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 22, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter handed down the sentence at a hearing Thursday, nearly three years after Kendricks admitted to the charges against him.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 22, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has ruled that because an investigative report commissioned by Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain Rutter's in response to a data security breach was not prepared for litigation purposes, it is not privileged.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 22, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia jury has awarded a $5.8 million verdict to the family of a woman who claimed that Einstein Healthcare Network's failure to perform a hysterectomy or a myomectomy led to the spread and metastasis of her cancer.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 21, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

In March 2016, Pennsylvania's 37th Investigative Grand Jury issued a report indicating Bodziak had sexually abused victims in the diocese and that the diocese was aware of it, Donohue said. Rice sued 35 years after the last instance of her abuse allegedly occurred in 1981.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 21, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

"I do not know the lawyers involved, but reading the opinion itself and just on the face of it—where the magistrate of the Middle District of Pennsylvania concluded that one-third of the transcript involved counsel objecting and being demeaning to opposing counsel—the monetary sanction was certainly appropriate and warranted in my judgment," legal ethics expert Abraham Reich of Fox Rothschild said.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 20, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

After a four-day trial and six hours of deliberation in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Stella Tsai's courtroom, the jury awarded its verdict to the estate of Lucretia Burgess, who died at age 48 of uterine cancer in September 2015.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 19, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a personal injury case where the plaintiff's experts diverge on an injured man's ability to return to work, the defendant unsuccessfully tried to convince the judge that some of those opinions should be excluded.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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July 14, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Houck previously stepped in to serve from 2013-2017 as interim dean of the unified Dickinson School of Law and the School of International Affairs, and later as interim dean of Penn State Law for the school's first two years.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

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