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The Legal Intelligencer

$27.6 Million Verdict Reversed for the Third Time

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has tossed as excessive a $27.6 million compensatory award to a woman who needed four knee surgeries after taping a promotional video to show the success of her initial knee-replacement procedure.
12 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In re Estate of Rich, PICS Case No. 16-0711 (Pa. Super. May 20, 2016) Stabile, J. (18 pages).

TRUSTS AND ESTATES
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Morrison Informatics Inc. v. Members 1st Fed. Credit Union, PICS Case No. 16-0714 (Pa. May 25, 2016) Saylor, C.J., Wecht, J, (concurring) (23 pages).

Superior Court properly allowed bankruptcy trustee to be substituted for company in action brought by company against credit union for alleged involvement in embezzlement after company had filed for bankruptcy, because Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that a relation back in favor of a federal bankruptcy trustee was appropriate where the trustee acted in a diligent fashion to secure substitution and there was no demonstrable prejudice to credit union. Affirmed.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Drug Cops' Case Against DA, Officials Tossed

Ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond said the defamation suit read like a press release and had no basis in law.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judges Wrestle With Definition of Parenthood at Argument

Targeting a 25-year decision that critics say defines parenthood too narrowly, two former same-sex partners argued before the Court of Appeals that they should be granted visitation right with children they have neither borne nor adopted.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Feds Seek Stay From Hanen

The U.S. Justice Department last week "emphatically" struck back at a Texas federal trial judge who imposed sanctions for alleged attorney misconduct in a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's immigration policies.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

New Trial Ordered Based on Prosecutor's Remarks

The Third Department said that a Schnectady County prosecutor had gone beyond the "wide latitude" afforded prosecutors in their closing statements when he told a jury that a defendant had not provided "an innocent explanation" for his conduct or incriminating evidence at the scene of a robbery.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

If Arbitration Has Been Waived, Beware Amending Complaints

A federal appeals court decision focuses on an employer's waiver of its right to arbitrate federal claims, writes attorney Ernesto Rafael Zaldivar.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Third DCA Reverses Dismissal in Wells Fargo Foreclosure Case

An investor insists it spent years litigating because Wells Fargo Bank N.A. wouldn't let it pay off the multimillion-dollar mortgage on a disbarred lawyer's house.
14 minute read

Law.com

Chief Justice Roberts Misses Solo Lawyers With 'Battered Briefcases'

In his 11th year as chief justice, John Roberts Jr. is sounding wistful about the days earlier in his career when lawyers who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and law clerks who worked for the justices were less polished than they are now.
10 minute read

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