The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Ben Seal | October 26, 2017
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has turned back a Dauphin County man's pursuit of strict liability claims following his wife's death in an accident involving a motorcycle he was operating.
By Zack Needles | The Legal Intelligencer | October 19, 2017
The state Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in with its interpretation of the word "any" in the statutory definition of "stripper well."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Amy C. Lachowicz | October 19, 2017
“How much were you paid at your last job?” This common, seemingly innocuous question that is routinely asked during an employer's pre-hiring process, could lead to disparities in salaries between men and women.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Blaine A. Lucas and Alyssa E. Golfieri | October 19, 2017
On July 6, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court rendered a decision in Board of Commissioners of Cheltenham Township v. Hansen-Lloyd, 166 A.3d 496 (Pa Commw. Ct. 2017), addressing several significant land use issues, most notably that the submittal of a mandatory sketch plan creates a vested right to develop the subject property pursuant to the ordinance provisions in effect at the time the plan is submitted.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | October 19, 2017
The spouse of a deceased police officer was entitled to resolve a dispute with the city over survivor pension benefits through arbitration, rather than a local agency appeal, because those benefits were specifically provided for in the police union's collective bargaining agreement with the city, a unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled.
The Legal Intelligencer | Best Practices|Commentary
By Edward T. Kang | October 19, 2017
The jury was thoroughly confused when a witness testified through an interpreter that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a ladder in a construction case I tried a few years ago.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Samuel C. Stretton | October 19, 2017
Payment to witnesses who are not experts is very limited and governed to a large extent by the Rules of Professional Conduct. Under Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 3.4(b), a lawyer cannot pay or offer payment to a witness contingent upon the content of the witness' testimony or the outcome of the case.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 19, 2017
An attorney representing the DEP told the state Supreme Court that, in the year since the Marcellus Shale Coalition won a preliminary injunction blocking portions of new oil and gas drilling regulations, over 700 sites have been drilled.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
Appellate courts in Pennsylvania have distorted case law dealing with sovereign immunity and improperly created an arbitrary distinction for highway guardrails, an attorney argued before the state Supreme Court.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | October 18, 2017
If the state Supreme Court upholds a decision that workers' compensation lawyers can be ordered to pay the employer's attorney fees for unreasonable contest, if the employer prevails on appeal, there will be a chilling effect on smaller cases, a lawyer representing a claimant told the justices.
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