The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | December 6, 2017
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to decide whether the city of Pittsburgh has the authority to force employers to offer paid sick leave and building owners to ramp up emergency response training.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | December 4, 2017
The Commonwealth Court has determined that Gov. Tom Wolf did not need to have cause for removing the former chairman of the School Reform Commission from his post.
By P.J. Dannunzio | November 30, 2017
A French citizen who moved to the United States from China and was terminated shortly after the packaging plant he worked in relocated from Shanghai to Philadelphia has been awarded $675,000 in his case against the company.
By Victoria Hudgins | November 30, 2017
Citing reports of doling out $1 million in bonuses to event organizers and staffers after the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, a state senator says Pennsylvania needs a required clawback provision in all contracts for future grants issued by the state.
By Victoria Hudgins | November 30, 2017
On Nov. 20, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation that extends CHIP to Dec. 31, 2019, without including a state Senate-approved prohibition on reimbursement for sex reassignment procedures for children enrolled in CHIP.
By Michael Riccardi | November 30, 2017
Following is a listing of executive and legislative action from the week of Nov. 27. Bothhouses of the General Assembly were in recess. The state House of Representatives wasscheduled to return to session on Monday. The Pennsylvania Senate was scheduled to comeback to session on Dec. 11.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Joshua Lorenz and Elaina Smiley | November 30, 2017
In April 2016, Gov. Tom Wolf signed Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program into law, adding the commonwealth to a list of 24 U.S. states with similar statutes. Though this program represents a step in the fight for access to more extensive pain management therapies, it also causes confusion among employers that are now required to abide by this new law.
By VerdictSearch | November 30, 2017
On June 1, 2014, plaintiff MacDonald Taylor, a maintenance worker in his late 30s, tripped and fell at his residence, at 513 Broadview Road, in Upper Darby. He had rented the property from Ray and Jeanine Wilt since August 2012.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | November 30, 2017
If the state Supreme Court decides that common-law forfeiture does not exist in Pennsylvania, criminals convicted of gun violence will have an easier time taking back their firearms and child pornographers would also be able to repossess the camera equipment and devices they used in committing their crimes, the Adams County district attorney told a full complement of the court Wednesday.
The Legal Intelligencer | Expert Opinion
By Samuel C. Stretton | November 30, 2017
I have been reading your columns and I note you always call law a profession. In reality, law is really a business now. Professionalism is secondary. Do you agree?
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