The Legal Staff

June 27, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Maybe the least well known of the city's four major Cuban restaurants, Caf� Habana is perhaps the most charmingly intimate.

By Danielle N. RodierOf the Legal Staff

5 minute read

December 27, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court issued a number of interesting opinions in 2006, but it was in the area of the public's right to information and condemnation of private property that the court's decisions really stood out.

By Peter Hall Of the Legal Staff

8 minute read

March 18, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court has ruled that a man who refused chemical blood-alcohol testing will lose his driver's license even though the airport police officer who stopped the driver arrested him outside the officer's territorial jurisdiction.

By Lori litchman Of the Legal Staff

4 minute read

May 27, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

For nearly 20 years, Florencio Tito Rolan sat on death row, waiting for someone to present the evidence that would spare his life. That day finally came this month, when a team of litigators from Schnader Harrison Segal Lewis secured a unanimous verdict in a capital resentencing hearing.

By Jeff Blumenthal Of the Legal Staff

5 minute read

May 27, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Commercial litigator Louis R. Moffa Jr., managing partner of Schnader Harrison Segal Lewis' Cherry Hill, N.J., office, is the latest partner to announce his departure from the firm. Moffa, who doubles as co-chairman of Schnader Harrison's construction litigation practice, will join the growing Voorhees, N.J., office of Ballard Spahr Andrews Ingersoll.

By Jeff Blumenthal Of the Legal Staff

5 minute read

July 15, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Montgomery County jury has awarded more than $3.6 million for a claim of delayed diagnosis of breast cancer, in a verdict that the winning lawyer said could shed light on how suburban juries will react to such complaints in the wake of recent changes in the venue rules, according to the plaintiff's attorney.

By Danielle N. RodierOf the Legal Staff

5 minute read

August 07, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

A plaintiff cannot present expert testimony that a grate that allegedly caused him to fall had a manufacturing defect because that particular grate was not available for examination by the defense, an Eastern District judge has ruled.

By Danielle N. RodierOf the Legal Staff

6 minute read

July 07, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

A local nursing home was properly denied a variance to expand its facility by 167 percent, despite its argument that it would likely have to close in the long run without an expansion because it would be unable to compete in the marketplace, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

By Danielle N. RodierOf the Legal Staff

6 minute read

September 17, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge should not have ordered a civil trial to proceed with eight jurors instead of 12 jurors over the objection of litigators who initially requested a nonjury trial, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff

4 minute read

June 30, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

A 12-year-old girl who by age 21 will have only a 50 percent chance of survival has secured an $18 million award from a Philadelphia jury after successfully claiming that two doctors could have prevented the heart transplant she underwent at age 6.

By Jennifer BatchelorOf the Legal Staff

7 minute read