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By Zack Needles | October 19, 2017
The spouse of a deceased police officer was entitled to resolve a dispute with the city over survivor pension benefits through arbitration, rather than a local agency appeal, because those benefits were specifically provided for in the police union's collective bargaining agreement with the city, a unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled.
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By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 19, 2017
An attorney representing the DEP told the state Supreme Court that, in the year since the Marcellus Shale Coalition won a preliminary injunction blocking portions of new oil and gas drilling regulations, over 700 sites have been drilled.
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By Lizzy McLellan | The Legal Intelligencer | October 19, 2017
Law firms are about to see their rent go down, except those moving into the newest, most premium space.
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By Lizzy McLellan | October 19, 2017
Pennsylvania-based Cozen O'Connor is looking to grow its labor and employment practice in California.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
A Centre County judge has refused serial child abuser and former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's request to have his conviction thrown out.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
A putative class action over the size of eye medicine drops dismissed by a federal judge for lack of standing has been revived by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
By Kristen Rasmussen | National Law Journal | October 18, 2017
Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pennsylvania, withdrew his name for consideration as President Trump's drug czar, two days after a bombshell from The Washington Post/60 Minutes report about the congressman's role as chief advocate for a 2016 federal law that weakened the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's control over opioid distributors. Here are a few things to know about the man at the center of the investigation.
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By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
"Limitless liability" is what health care providers in Pennsylvania would be exposed to if the state Supreme Court determined that UPMC could be liable for the conduct of a former drug-addicted employee who caused a hepatitis C outbreak in Kansas two years after being fired by the Pittsburgh-based hospital, a lawyer representing the hospital told the justices.
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By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
Appellate courts in Pennsylvania have distorted case law dealing with sovereign immunity and improperly created an arbitrary distinction for highway guardrails, an attorney argued before the state Supreme Court.
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By Max Mitchell | October 18, 2017
If the state Supreme Court upholds a decision that workers' compensation lawyers can be ordered to pay the employer's attorney fees for unreasonable contest, if the employer prevails on appeal, there will be a chilling effect on smaller cases, a lawyer representing a claimant told the justices.
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