Wire Reports

July 16, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania�s highest court on Thursday upheld state gambling regulators� award of a slot-machine license to a prominent businessman who wants to build a casino on the site of a once-renowned lodge in the Pocono Mountains.

By Staff and Wire Reports

4 minute read

October 14, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to consider multiple petitions to review Pennsylvania Congressional districts set to take effect in 2004. The decision has no effect on the temporary districts in place for next month's election.

By Staff and Wire Reports

5 minute read

July 08, 2009 | Law.com

A lawyer was held hostage by her former husband in their South Windsor, Conn., home on Tuesday afternoon, the latest episode in a long, messy divorce case. Attorney Nancy Tyler, 57, works at the firm of O'Brien, Tanski & Young in Hartford. Her estranged husband was identified as Richard Shenkman, 60. Police said he had fired shots at police negotiators and bomb squad members, demanded that the Hartford Courant remove a story about the stand-off from its Web site and made other unspecified demands.

By Staff and Wire Reports

3 minute read

May 26, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

The voters have rendered their verdict: two western Pennsylvania judges will compete for a single open seat on the state Supreme Court in November.

By Staff and Wire Reports

7 minute read

October 25, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Concluding that its earlier admonitions were not strong enough, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has adopted a blanket prohibition against prosecutors urging jurors to send a message with the verdicts they issue.

By From Staff and Wire Reports

5 minute read