The First Judicial District’s counsel in the court’s legal malpractice lawsuit against the former lawyer on the Philadelphia family courthouse deal is seeking to compel the medical examination and the production of medical records of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman after unsuccessfully seeking to depose the ex-jurist since November.

Richard A. Sprague, Joseph R. Podraza Jr. and Peter A. Greiner of Sprague & Sprague said in a motion filed before Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, who has been appointed to preside over the Philadelphia-based litigation, that the judge should order Newman to furnish copies of all medical reports “concerning the condition that has kept her from appearing” to testify at her deposition.

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