By Michael Riccardi | January 18, 2018
Following is a listing of executive, legislative and judicial action for the week of Jan. 15. Both houses of the General Assembly are in recess and scheduled to return to session on Monday.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Joe Clement | January 18, 2018
Drive through Lansdale Borough and it's hard not to notice the construction projects reshaping the formerly sleepy little community. Lansdale, a densely populated, three-square mile borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, located 28 miles northwest of Philadelphia, and bisected by a rail line, has quickly become a hotbed for redevelopment and public-private partnership projects.
By Samuel C. Stretton | January 18, 2018
I saw that the new district attorney in Philadelphia has listed abolishing cash bail as one of his goals. I have also seen other reports. How will this affect lawyers?
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | January 18, 2018
A case where an attorney was barred from attending a client's independent psychological exam should proceed, despite the plaintiff's argument that she had a right to counsel during the evaluation, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
By VerdictSearch | January 18, 2018
In 2015, plaintiff LLBM LLC, a York-based firm, was assigned a promissory note of $50,000 by Gary Lucas. The note had been issued in June 2003, by real estate company Prime Properties Inc. to Lucas, who had loaned it money.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By David F. Stern and Taylor J. Cohen | January 18, 2018
“AMA's Approach to Impairment Rating Evaluations is Unconstitutional”—an article written by Samuel H. Pond and Andrew F. Ruder of Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano, published in The Legal Intelligencer on April 23, 2013. The title speaks for itself, but contained therein was an explanation that while the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act (act) does not place limitations on the length of time an injured worker can receive ongoing wage loss benefits, it did establish an impairment rating system for individuals who had been receiving total disability benefits for a period of two years.
By VerdictSearch | January 18, 2018
In April 2007, plaintiffs Kevin and Kathleen Johnson purchased a new single-family home built by Cutler Group Inc., in North Wales, for $646,500.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephanie K. Rawitt | January 18, 2018
With the Trump administration settled into the White House and honing in on its one-year anniversary, we have begun to see an expected shift from a heavily administrated workplace to a more hands off, employer-friendly regulatory environment. It is expected that this trend will continue in 2018.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | January 17, 2018
In recently denying reargument after more than a decade of litigation, the Commonwealth Court has cemented its decision to reinstate an arbitration award in a case in which a church leader was found to have misappropriated church money.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | January 17, 2018
A split Commonwealth Court panel held that municipal code and zoning enforcement officers are considered management-level employees and are therefore excluded from collective bargaining activities.
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