The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By James W. Cushing | June 21, 2024
The presumption that a child born of a married couple is the child of that couple is one of the oldest and strongest presumptions in the American common law tradition. Due to various and substantial societal changes in recent decades, the presumption has slowly been modified to reflect those changes the same.
By Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot | June 21, 2024
King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, announced the addition of Rachel Sokolsky to the firm's special education law practice.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | June 20, 2024
The allocatur grant comes following a November 2023 ruling by the Commonwealth Court, where a unanimous en banc panel determined that so-called "skill" games, which are video game machines often found in bars and restaurants, don't constitute illegal gambling.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Amanda O'Brien | June 20, 2024
Cozen O'Connor is moving into Little Rock with the hire of a former Arkansas attorney general, while Faegre Drinker's hire arrives from Troutman Pepper in New York.
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | June 20, 2024
"Everyone has been encouraging me to do this, because they believe I can do it, they believe I can be a good judge," Henry, a career public defender, said during her nomination hearing. "I am thrilled at even being considered for this position."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By The Young Lawyer Editorial Board | June 20, 2024
Your colleagues are highly educated, driven professionals who made their way through law school and the bar exam and are now managing a practice, and they aren't feeling accomplished!
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Mark Mailman | June 20, 2024
Recently, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was asked to decide whether a plaintiff could simultaneously recover punitive damages under common-law theories and treble damages under the CPL. In a win for Pennsylvania consumers, the court in Dwyer v. Ameriprise Financial, held that a plaintiff could.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert Max Junker and Anna S. Jewart | June 20, 2024
To avoid luxurious lolling by local governments, the Legislature included mandatory deadlines in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. Section 10101 et seq. (MPC), which governs municipal regulation of zoning, subdivision and land development within the commonwealth. The MPC sets forth strict requirements for when and how municipalities make decisions on land use applications, in addition to how they communicate those decisions to the applicant.
By Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot | June 20, 2024
Speakers Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin announced that Steven A. Hann recently was the sole speaker at the "Soup to Nuts, PFAS Regulations…
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Edward T. Kang | June 20, 2024
Hypothetical questions can help facilitate conversations on judgments about the perceived likelihood or potential consequences of an event or an action. They can also help reveal hidden or flawed assumptions. Supreme Court justices, for instance, often use hypothetical questions to test the outer boundaries of what the advocate is asking the court to declare and of what the court may have to decide.
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