By Andrew Denney | September 18, 2018
In one of the biggest settlement agreements reached in New York for survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has agreed to pay $27.5 million to four persons who alleged they had been abused as children by a volunteer at the St. Lucy-St. Patrick's church in Brooklyn, the plaintiffs' lawyers in the case said Tuesday.
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By Max Mitchell | September 18, 2018
Nearly three years after Philadelphia juries awarded compensatory damages in two Risperdal cases, a judge has ordered that the cases proceed to new trials on whether the drugmaker's conduct merits punitive damages.
By Andrew Denney | September 18, 2018
Visa, Mastercard and a number of U.S. banks have reached an agreement to pay $6.2 billion to settle a long-running class action suit brought by millions of merchants over card swipe fees.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Penny Conly Ellison | September 18, 2018
As animal law has developed into a specialty over the past few decades, lawyers have wrestled with how to get their interests to matter in court proceedings. Animals are property under the law, a concept that has broad implications.
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By Max Mitchell | September 18, 2018
The state Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in several closely watched cases starting Tuesday, but a dispute stemming from the high-profile grand jury report outlining decades of sex abuse at Catholic dioceses across Pennsylvania is expected to highlight the two-day session.
By Greg Land | September 17, 2018
The crash left one child dead and another permanently paralyzed. The at-fault driver is in prison for vehicular homicide.
By Andrew Denney | September 17, 2018
President Donald Trump is pushing back against an effort by a woman suing him for defamation for the president to produce information about other women who have accused him of sexual harassment, deriding it as a means to harass and distract him from his official duties.
By Andrew Denney | September 17, 2018
President Donald Trump is pushing back against an effort by a woman suing him for defamation for the president to produce information about other women who have accused him of sexual harassment, deriding it as a means to harass and distract him from his official duties.
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By Max Mitchell | September 17, 2018
Erie County has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle claims that corrections officers at the county prison beat a 52-year-old man so severely he eventually sustained strokes, kidney failure and a collapsed or punctured lung.
By Howard J. Bashman | September 17, 2018
Upon Further ReviewFiling Proposed Points for Charge No Longer Suffices to Preserve Objections to Jury Instructions, Pa. Supreme Court RulesUnless…
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