By Kristie Rearick | May 28, 2024
On Aug. 29, 2021, plaintiff Terry Harris, a woman in her late 50s, tripped and fell while entering a Dollar World in Philadelphia. She suffered a knee fracture.
By Kristie Rearick | May 28, 2024
On Dec. 18, 2020, plaintiff Charo Simpson, 50, slipped and fell at Lykon Automotive, an automobile repair shop in Bristol. She claimed neck, arm, ankle and foot injuries.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | May 24, 2024
The Supreme Court has previously noted that the theory "has been characterized as one of the strongest presumptions known to the law," and was originally developed "to shield a child from the stigma attached in the past to illegitimacy, which subjected the child to significant legal and social discrimination."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Alexandra G. Farone | May 24, 2024
The same day it voted to publish the final rule, tax services and software company Ryan LLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas seeking an injunction to stop the implementation of the ban. The following day, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and three other business groups filed a similar lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas challenging the ban.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By James M. Beck | May 23, 2024
A new trial (whether by motion, necessitated by a mistrial, or ordered on appeal) certainly defeats law of the case. The slate-wiping function of a new trial means that the law-of-the-case doctrine is "misplaced."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Meghan L. Zupancic | May 23, 2024
During the years between the bill's introduction and its ultimate passage, Kayden's Law was subject to significant amendments, largely through the efforts of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and numerous local bar associations concerned with the potentially negative effects the bill could have on many families involved in custody litigation.
The Legal Intelligencer | Analysis|News
By Amanda O'Brien | May 17, 2024
"There's not a legal practice area that hasn't touched or worked for our cannabis practice here," said Duane Morris cannabis practice co-leader Paul Josephson.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Samuel H. Pond and Vladimir Dorash | May 17, 2024
The means used to obstruct the approval of the fee are not only flawed litigation tactics but arguably rise to the level of tortious interference. While some choose to be willfully blind to the plain language of Section 442 of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act, as well as its clear interpretation in Neves and Williams, we call on the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation defense bar to abstain from tortious interference with contractual relationship between injured workers and their attorneys under the pretext of a "greater good."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Edward T. Kang | May 17, 2024
As a growing body of academic literature asserts, noncompetes are restraints against competition, and they are harmful to both employees and the economy. As one of the major levers that the federal government has over the economy, antitrust laws can provide significant deterrence to abuse of noncompetes by employers.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Matthew B. Weisberg | May 17, 2024
In Heffernan v. Hunter, the court held that because the defendants (appellees) acted within the attorney-client relationship they cannot be considered conspirators.
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