The ever-expanding area of technology—GPS tracking devices and threats via Facebook—was the subject of several of the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s most controversial and important decisions of the year. But its most dramatic decision came at the end of the year when the frontline appeals court reversed the criminal conviction of the first Catholic Church administrative official to have been charged with endangering minors in connection with the priest sex-abuse scandal.
Though the court had one fewer judge sitting on the bench after Correale F. Stevens, then its president judge, was elevated to the state Supreme Court in July, the Superior Court handled the full range of cases, and issued important decisions on topics ranging from whether an expert can reference a patient’s smoking history to the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act’s statute of repose.
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