The Law

January 17, 2000 | The Legal Intelligencer

This article continues our efforts in introducing the explosion of Pennsylvania legal information now available through the Internet.

By FRANK Y. LIU and DITTAKAVI RAO Special to the Law Weekly

10 minute read

April 30, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania legal research in the area of criminal law covers primary and secondary sources. This article will review the major resources available for criminal law research.

By Joel Fishman Special to the Law Weekly

8 minute read

June 19, 2000 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pittsburgh, it's not just for steelworkers anymore. The Steel City is trading in its mills and iron girders for dot-com startups and DSL lines.

By Sebastian Stockman Special to the Law Weekly

7 minute read

September 03, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

General-purpose Web search engines such as AltaVista and Google are great for many types of searches. They're also rather large - they index anywhere from 500 million to 1.3 billion Web pages. But they aren't appropriate for every type of search.

By Dan Giancaterino Special to the Law Weekly

11 minute read

December 15, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

You may have never heard of Martin's Potato Chips of Thomasville, Pa., but the President of the United States has. Martin's KettleCook'd Potato Chips fly aboard Air Force One, and 80,000 bags of the Pennsylvania snack were provided to this year's ...

By C.J. Haddick Jr. Special to the Law Weekly

8 minute read

November 05, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

Six candidates are vying for three seats on the Commonwealth Court, and all of them are more than qualified to handle the position, according to the Judicial Evaluation Commission of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

By Marissa N. Scarvel of the Law Weekly

5 minute read

February 25, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

A corporation's election to treat the sale of a subsidiary as a fictional liquidation under federal tax law has no effect on Pennsylvania's state tax classification of gain from the sale, the Commonwealth Court has ruled in an apparent issue of first impr

By Ruth Bryna Cohen of the Law Weekly

6 minute read

February 25, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Environmental Hearing Board must defer to the Department of Environmental Protection's interpretation of DEP regulations, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Lori Litchman of the Law Weekly

6 minute read

December 24, 2001 | The Legal Intelligencer

The term "court" in the arbitration provision of the Wage Payment and Collection Law does not mean that a common pleas judge must decide a claim for attorney fees, a common pleas court judge has ruled.

By Lori Litchman of the Law Weekly

5 minute read

May 01, 2000 | The Legal Intelligencer

Doctors' groups and clinics cannot be held liable under the corporate negligence doctrine, since the state Supreme Court has limited such medical malpractice liability to hospitals and HMOs, two recent common pleas courts have held.

By TRACY BLITZ NEWMAN of the Law Weekly

8 minute read