The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Maria C. Salvemini | September 12, 2019
The Deull Fuel case is one of the pending lawsuits in which the state is seeking to recover natural resource damages (NRDs) pursuant to its role as trustee of the state's natural resources. NRDs compensate the state for injury to natural resources caused by a discharge of hazardous substances.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Will Sylianteng | September 12, 2019
Anyone who has practiced the law in jurisdictions other than the one they grew up in, realizes that the practice of the law, and the world in general, is full of color and that people come in all sorts of shapes, races, ethnicities and genders.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Francis J. Lawall and John Henry Schanne II | September 12, 2019
Equal treatment of claims in the same class within a plan of reorganization is an important creditor protection in Chapter 11. However, is it possible to provide certain benefits to some creditors within a single class and not others without running afoul of the Bankruptcy Code?
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Justin H. Werner | September 12, 2019
The panel reasoned that the other one third of rental payments and up-front lease bonuses constituted "income" that was outside the scope of Article I, Section 27, also known as the Environmental Rights Amendment (the ERA).
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Matthew B. Weisberg | September 12, 2019
The common law cause of action for wrongful use of civil proceedings has been codified at 42 Pa.C.S.A. Section 8352, et seq. The statute is referred to as the Dragonetti Act.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Katayun I. Jaffari and Jessica DuBois | September 11, 2019
A review of the data from the past two proxy seasons seems to suggest certain trends. First, a company's capitalization, number of employees, and industry type seem to be key factors in determining how high or low a pay ratio is.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Alan Nochumson | September 11, 2019
During our first year of law school, we all had to take the course of real property and learn about many esoteric theories of the law such as the theory of adverse possession.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Sid Steinberg | September 10, 2019
Many employment law statutes base the level of damages or length of the applicable statute of limitations on a determination of whether the employer's actions were "willful."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jules Epstein | September 10, 2019
Pennsylvania race was and remains a thumb on the capital case scales—in the decision of who faces the death penalty; in the selection of jurors and in jurors' ultimate decision of whether to vote for death.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carl W. Hittinger and Jeanne-Michele Mariani | September 9, 2019
Last month, they introduced the Monopolization Deterrence Act, which would allow the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil penalties for monopolization offenses under U.S. antitrust law.
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