By Howard J. Bashman | August 14, 2017
The Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is authorized to have 14 judges in active service. The court, however, currently has three vacancies. Two of those vacancies, one in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey, existed before last November's presidential election and continue to exist now. The third vacancy occurred when Circuit Judge D. Michael Fisher took senior status in February of this year.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 14, 2017
That unanswered question permeated Monday's oral arguments before the Georgia Supreme Court.
By B. Colby Hamilton | August 14, 2017
A district court order holding the Cuban government liable for a $45 million judgment under a federal terrorism law was reversed and remanded by the Second Circuit Monday.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 11, 2017
As their battle heads to the Georgia Supreme Court, lawyers for the family of Remi Walden and the maker of the Jeep vehicle in which he died have filed briefs framing two dramatically different views of the same trial.
By Charles Toutant | August 11, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has voided Best Buy's mandatory arbitration policy for workplace disputes based on the company's failure to obtain employees' assent to the terms.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 11, 2017
Attorney Stephen Reba found the memo amid a sheaf of loose papers in one of 10 banker boxes left over from the 2007 murder trial of a coastal Georgia physician.
By John Council | August 11, 2017
Former Beaumont state District Judge Layne Walker has won another ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit throwing out a civil case filed against him — this time by a lawyer and political rival who alleged she was banned from Walker's courtroom hallway after campaigning against him.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
Trial court properly sustained university's preliminary objections in appellant nursing student's action for damages after she transferred to another school because there was no breach of contract where nursing program was fully accredited at all relevant times and appellant was offered the opportunity that she claimed was contractually required, to graduate from a fully accredited nursing program. Affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
Interest arbitration award did not deviate from Act 47 plan and was therefore not directly appealable to the commonwealth court where award expressly adopted the salary increases set forth in the municipality's Act 47 plan. Motion to quash granted.
By Michael Booth | August 11, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has overturned a counsel fee award to a Montclair resident who successfully challenged a local ordinance allowing for the construction of an assisted-living facility.
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