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By Max Mitchell | April 27, 2018
Attorneys, court watchers and former justices who spoke with The Legal agreed that the King's Bench power is reserved for very select and significant cases that must be handled extremely quickly. And at least one former member of the high court did not think the latest use of the powers met that high threshold.
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By Max Mitchell | April 27, 2018
The jury rendered its verdict Friday morning, after more than two weeks of trial and about two days of deliberation.
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By Lizzy McLellan | April 26, 2018
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele nodded toward the #MeToo movement after the sexual assault verdict, saying there's now "remarkable awareness of how these crimes have been covered up and papered over" in the past.
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By Max Mitchell | April 25, 2018
The Philadelphia Bar Association's criminal justice section has dropped its bid to win support for legislation aimed at providing needed funding for indigent defense counsel at the expense of the Jenkins Law Library.
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By Max Mitchell | April 24, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered embattled hip hop star Meek Mill released from prison on an unsecured bail, and ordered the trial court to rule on the rapper's PCRA petition within 60 days.
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By Max Mitchell | April 24, 2018
If Janssen Pharmaceuticals was the Cleveland Cavaliers, then its blockbuster blood thinner medication Xarelto was the company's LeBron James, an attorney suing the drugmaker told a Philadelphia jury during closing arguments in the latest state court trial over the drug's safety.
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By Lizzy McLellan | April 24, 2018
On the 12th day of Cosby's retrial on aggravated indecent assault charges, two lawyers from Cosby's team—Kathleen Bliss and Tom Mesereau—split their final argument on Cosby's behalf. Following suit, Kristen Gibbons Feden and M. Stewart Ryan split the prosecution's closing argument.
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By Max Mitchell | April 23, 2018
A federal judge has rejected an insurance provider's attempts to invalidate a $125 million settlement that the company, and several others, entered into with the makers of the sleep-disorder drug Provigil.
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By Lizzy McLellan | April 20, 2018
Cosby's defense lawyers want to use decade-old deposition testimony from Andrea Constand's friend, who they say is unavailable for trial testimony.
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By Max Mitchell | April 19, 2018
A federal judge has rejected calls to appoint additional counsel to represent injured players seeking recovery under the NFL's $1 billion concussion settlement.
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