By Cliff Rieders | June 3, 2024
The gist of the action doctrine is generally "designed to maintain the conceptual distinction between breach of contract claims and tort claims. As a practical matter, the doctrine precludes plaintiffs from re-casting ordinary breach of contract claims into a tort claim."
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Aleeza Furman | May 31, 2024
According to the plaintiff's lawyer, the case is the first to be brought by a physician claiming to have been discharged for doing his legal duties to take care of student-athletes.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Melissa Hazell Davis | May 30, 2024
Technology is here to stay and its role in how we lawyer will only grow. But it is important that we as lawyers learn how to use and embrace existing and future technology responsibly without shirking our professional and ethical responsibilities.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Will Sylianteng | May 30, 2024
As more and more nonattorneys begin to turn to artificial intelligence for legal advice and legal document drafting, more and more attorneys will have to face pro se litigants armed with artificial intelligence.
By Kristie Rearick | May 28, 2024
On Aug. 29, 2021, plaintiff Terry Harris, a woman in her late 50s, tripped and fell while entering a Dollar World in Philadelphia. She suffered a knee fracture.
By Kristie Rearick | May 28, 2024
On Dec. 18, 2020, plaintiff Charo Simpson, 50, slipped and fell at Lykon Automotive, an automobile repair shop in Bristol. She claimed neck, arm, ankle and foot injuries.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | May 24, 2024
The Supreme Court has previously noted that the theory "has been characterized as one of the strongest presumptions known to the law," and was originally developed "to shield a child from the stigma attached in the past to illegitimacy, which subjected the child to significant legal and social discrimination."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Alexandra G. Farone | May 24, 2024
The same day it voted to publish the final rule, tax services and software company Ryan LLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas seeking an injunction to stop the implementation of the ban. The following day, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and three other business groups filed a similar lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas challenging the ban.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By James M. Beck | May 23, 2024
A new trial (whether by motion, necessitated by a mistrial, or ordered on appeal) certainly defeats law of the case. The slate-wiping function of a new trial means that the law-of-the-case doctrine is "misplaced."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Meghan L. Zupancic | May 23, 2024
During the years between the bill's introduction and its ultimate passage, Kayden's Law was subject to significant amendments, largely through the efforts of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and numerous local bar associations concerned with the potentially negative effects the bill could have on many families involved in custody litigation.
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