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National Law Journal

Evidence is Key to Navigating Child Support

Emancipation can hinge on events like finishing school or attaining a certain age, but bring your proof.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Is Philadelphia's Team Leader Approach Sowing Confusion?

The team leader approach at the First Judicial District was instituted decades ago to help the court clear out a stifling backlog and keep the system running efficiently, but according to some lawyers, the system is beginning to show its age.
15 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. McClure, PICS Case No. 16-1013 (Pa. Super. Aug. 8, 2016) Stabile, J. (15 pages).

By | August 19, 2016
The trial court erred when it permitted the commonwealth, in proving its emotional stress-induced motive theory, to elicit testimony regarding incidents that occurred several years after the alleged crime. Judgment of sentence vacated; case remanded for new trial.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Palmer, PICS Case No. 16-1014 (Pa. Super. Aug. 4, 2016) Dubow, J. (9 pages).

By | August 19, 2016
Police possessed a valid basis to conduct a protective frisk where appellant was ordered out of a vehicle that was to be towed pursuant to a valid traffic stop, because the vehicle was illegally parked and none of its occupants possessed a valid driver's license. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Mediating Valuation Disputes in Minority Oppression Litigation

Arthur H. Rosenbloom explains the theory and practice of oppression litigation—when minority shareholders of an entity sue, claiming that the conduct of those in control has been oppressive— and, if such matters are mediated, the mediator's role in getting the matter to settle.
24 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New Trend in Internal Investigations Is Less Writing, More Speaking

When Baylor University decided to ask for an oral rather than written report on its recent internal probe of sexual assault by football players on campus, some eyebrows were raised.
15 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Seeking Redress for 19 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment

Prosecutors kept fighting Scott Lewis' release even after an FBI report long ago cast doubt on his conviction. Now he wants New Haven to pay.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Man Exonerated by DNA Test Moves Forward With Civil Suit

A man who spent the better part of two decades in prison and civilly committed in connection with a sex assault, until an exonerating DNA test was belatedly performed, has cleared hurdles in his civil suit against law enforcement and the lawyers who represented him along the way.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Social Media Can be a Minefield — or a Gold Mine

The value of this evidence dissipates if it's not properly authenticated. Aim to do so during discovery.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Freeh Firm's Communications With PSU Discoverable in Paterno Case

Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan's communications with members of Penn State University and its lawyers during the firm's investigation of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal are not privileged, a Centre County trial judge has ruled in the suit brought by the family of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno against the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
13 minute read

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