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State Employee Birth Dates Protected From Disclosure
In a case of first impression, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel has ruled that the month and day of birth of nearly 70,000 state employees are protected from disclosure under the state's Right-to-Know Law.Verizon Challenges PUC Rate Decision
In the high-stakes litigation over local telephone rates, Verizon Inc. is urging a federal judge to overrule an October 2004 decision by the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission that established lower rates for competitors who lease portions of the Verizon network, claiming that the new rate structure will cause it to suffer annual losses of $690 million.Phila. Firms May Be Ripe for Mergers With Out-of-Towners
While larger Philadelphia firms attempt to create various identities - whether it be national, regional, super-regional or global - one fact remains: There are few out-of-town national firms with offices in the City of Brotherly Love.Schnader Management Sees Bright Future Ahead
Five years ago, the venerable Schnader Harrison Segal Lewis was plotting its ascension into the top tier of Philadelphia law firms.Judge Tosses Sex Harassment Claims Against Airline
A federal judge in Pa. has dismissed sexual harassment claims in a suit against Continental Airlines after finding that allegations did not meet the legal test for a "hostile environment."Expert Testimony Issue Before the High Court
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral arguments to decide whether an appellate court properly threw out a $19.2 million verdict against a pharmaceutical company because it found the plaintiff's expert was not reliable. The Superior Court cannot substitute its finding on reliability of expert evidence for that of the jury, attorney Thomas R. Kline argued on behalf of a couple who claimed Merrell Dow's drug Bendectin caused their son to be born with clubfeet.In Vivendi Securities Class Action, a Rare Trial Verdict
On Jan. 29, following a three-month trial and three weeks of deliberations, the jury in In re Vivendi Universal found Vivendi liable for federal securities Rule 10b-5 violations based on 57 material misstatements by the company. Damages for the class could exceed $9 billion.The final chapter for false-marking whistleblower suits?
The patent reform act's severe limitation on false-marking cases properly applies to cases filed before the law's enactment, the Federal Circuit ruled on May 2.Trending Stories
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