By Victoria Hudgins | April 3, 2018
The Pennsylvania Bar Association children's rights committee named Delaware County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nathaniel C. Nichols of Media as its Child Advocate of the Year.
By Victoria Hudgins | March 29, 2018
The state Senate unanimously passed a measure allowing the auditor general to audit the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors.
By Victoria Hudgins | March 29, 2018
A state representative has proposed barring solitary confinement of specific inmate populations, the use of restraint chairs, chemical agents and shackles during solitary confinement and prohibiting solitary confinement over 15 days for all inmates.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | March 29, 2018
The parents of a baby girl whose scalp was disfigured after a doctor wrapped an ACE bandage around her head to treat swelling following her premature birth has been awarded $47 million by a federal jury.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Leonard Deutchman | March 29, 2018
In Klipsch, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the Southern District of New York's order that even though “the likely valuation of actual damages” caused by the defendant's discovery violations was $25,000, the defendant additionally had to pay the plaintiff a total of $5 million as “compensation” for “discovery efforts” the plaintiff had to take solely because of the defendant's misconduct, as well as for “restraint … appropriate to secure” the plaintiff's “likely recovery of treble damages and attorney fees at the conclusion of the case.”
By VerdictSearch | March 29, 2018
On Feb. 13, 2015, Felice Holland, 58, a government worker, was leaving Temple Episcopal Hospital, at 100 E. Lehigh Ave., in Philadelphia. As she was walking through the hospital's parking lot she slipped and fell on a patch of ice. She landed on her back and claimed injuries to her neck and back.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | March 29, 2018
An appeals court has denied a party's request to have its business row over the purchase of a kosher wine store arbitrated in a rabbinical court.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | March 29, 2018
In an apparent issue of first impression, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has invalidated a no-hire provision in the case of trucking company employees seeking jobs at a competitor.
By Zack Needles | March 29, 2018
Following is a listing of executive and legislative action from the week of March 26. Both houses of the General Assembly were in recess at press time. The Pennsylvania Senate was scheduled to return to session April 16. The state House of Representatives was set to return to session April 9.
The Legal Intelligencer | Expert Opinion
By Samuel C. Stretton | March 29, 2018
I am an older lawyer who is a solo practitioner. Is there anything I should be doing to protect my clients if I should pass away unexpectedly?
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