Trials ordered by reverse bifurcation are not uncommon, especially those involving medical malpractice cases and asbestos-related cases.

But earlier this summer, to adjudicate an 11-year old court case over a communications tower, Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge W. Terrance O’Brien ordered that a jury trial to begin by this procedure.

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