Pennsylvania Law Weekly News

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    $675K Awarded to French National Fired From Packaging Company

    By P.J. Dannunzio | November 30, 2017

    A French citizen who moved to the United States from China and was terminated shortly after the packaging plant he worked in relocated from Shanghai to Philadelphia has been awarded $675,000 in his case against the company.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Senator Proposes Clawback Provision in All State Grants

    By Victoria Hudgins | November 30, 2017

    Citing reports of doling out $1 million in bonuses to event organizers and staffers after the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, a state senator says Pennsylvania needs a required clawback provision in all contracts for future grants issued by the state.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    CHIP Reauthorized Without Transgender Procedures Prohibition

    By Victoria Hudgins | November 30, 2017

    On Nov. 20, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation that extends CHIP to Dec. 31, 2019, without including a state Senate-approved prohibition on reimbursement for sex reassignment procedures for children enrolled in CHIP.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Capitol Report

    By Michael Riccardi | November 30, 2017

    Following is a listing of executive and legislative action from the week of Nov. 27. Bothhouses of the General Assembly were in recess. The state House of Representatives wasscheduled to return to session on Monday. The Pennsylvania Senate was scheduled to comeback to session on Dec. 11.

  • The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary

    The Construction Industry and Medical Marijuana Use in Pennsylvania

    By Joshua Lorenz and Elaina Smiley | November 30, 2017

    In April 2016, Gov. Tom Wolf signed Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program into law, adding the commonwealth to a list of 24 U.S. states with similar statutes. Though this program represents a step in the fight for access to more extensive pain management therapies, it also causes confusion among employers that are now required to abide by this new law.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Despite Tenant's Fall, Stairs Didn't Need Rail, Claimed Owner

    By VerdictSearch | November 30, 2017

    On June 1, 2014, plaintiff MacDonald Taylor, a maintenance worker in his late 30s, tripped and fell at his residence, at 513 Broadview Road, in Upper Darby. He had rented the property from Ray and Jeanine Wilt since August 2012.

  • The Legal Intelligencer | News

    Justices Weigh Existence of Common-Law Forfeiture in Pa.

    By Max Mitchell | November 30, 2017

    If the state Supreme Court decides that common-law forfeiture does not exist in Pennsylvania, criminals convicted of gun violence will have an easier time taking back their firearms and child pornographers would also be able to repossess the camera equipment and devices they used in committing their crimes, the Adams County district attorney told a full complement of the court Wednesday.

  • The Legal Intelligencer | Expert Opinion

    Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

    By Samuel C. Stretton | November 30, 2017

    I have been reading your columns and I note you always call law a profession. In reality, law is really a business now. Professionalism is secondary. Do you agree?

  • The Legal Intelligencer | News

    Statute of Limitations for UM Claim Tolls at Time of Breach, Not Accident

    By Ben Seal | November 30, 2017

    The statute of limitations begins to run on an uninsured motorist claim when an alleged breach of a contractual duty takes place, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled in a case that caused a clash among justices after the court tweaked the question under consideration two weeks after oral arguments.

  • The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary

    Contracts With E-Discovery Vendors: Do You Want In or Out and Why?

    By Leonard Deutchman | November 30, 2017

    I spend most of my work week writing, reviewing, discussing and executing contracts between my company and clients, and have pretty much done so since 2005. In those 12 years, the contracts I typically receive from clients, as well as our contract template, have changed considerably, for a number of reasons: the parties better understand both that many choices can be made in drafting contracts and the consequences of those choices, and the number and shape of factors involved in such contracts has grown as e-discovery has.

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