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By Max Mitchell | April 10, 2019
U.S. Supreme Court precedent holding that, absent exigent circumstances, warrantless blood tests are unconstitutional is a substantive rule change and should apply retroactively for any case where the issue was raised on a post-conviction appeal, a defense attorney argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
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By Max Mitchell | April 10, 2019
The case stems from a dispute over whether Pennsylvania's Minimum Wage Act allows an employer to pay a salaried employee half of their regular rate for every hour worked over 40 in a given week, rather than one-and-a-half times their regular salary for each overtime hour.
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By Max Mitchell | April 8, 2019
Judge Gene Pratter denied Choice Hotels International's motion to dismiss, determining that the plaintiff showed enough of a connection between the international hotel company and the Pennsylvania-based franchisee that she directly worked for.
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By Max Mitchell | April 4, 2019
Both Allstate and Geico late last month filed motions seeking to dismiss the class actions that were brought against them in the wake of the state Supreme Court's decision in Gallagher v. Geico.
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By Max Mitchell | April 2, 2019
The justices are set to hear arguments in 16 cases that delve into a range of topics including driving while intoxicated, grand jury secrecy and questions of police governance.
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By Zack Needles | March 21, 2019
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will not review a state Superior Court ruling that held that a lawyer's legal malpractice suit against her divorce attorneys alleging breach of contract actually sounded in tort and therefore was not timely filed.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | March 19, 2019
A federal judge has ruled there is sufficient evidence to allow a lawsuit to proceed alleging Dollar Tree knew about a potentially dangerous detergent spill in one of its stores and had time to clean it before it allegedly caused a slip and fall.
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By Max Mitchell | March 18, 2019
U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania last week issued an order asking the parties to either agree on an expert to evaluate the audio tape or submit names of qualified experts who could review the tape for authenticity.
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By Max Mitchell | March 13, 2019
The warning comes as part of the companies' efforts to fight having their cases consolidated with more than a dozen opioid lawsuits that were brought into the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas.
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By Max Mitchell | March 12, 2019
BrownGreer filed a response to a motion Florida attorney Patrick Tighe filed last month, which asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to bar the claims administrator from repeatedly auditing ex-players' claims.
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