By Jed M. Silversmith and Jeremy Kolman | July 6, 2017
On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that will impact sentencing in virtually every criminal case that involves multiple defendants (or multiple conspirators) and the imposition of an order of forfeiture.
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By Samuel C. Stretton | July 6, 2017
I am a young lawyer who is starting to try a number of cases in Philadelphia and I hear stories of roving jurors. What were they?
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By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | July 6, 2017
Two more former Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod litigators — Brandon Rose and Anthony Narula — have joined former colleagues at AXS Law Group, a full-service boutique firm that opened last year.
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By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | July 6, 2017
Now that global law firm DLA Piper is for the most part back up and running after days without phones and email following a massive cyberattack, the financial and business threat of ransomware to law firms is laid clear—as is the need for good cyber insurance.
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By Michael Dillon | July 6, 2017
On June 2, the Commonwealth Court weighed in on the long-simmering national debate surrounding questions of when two or more facilities must be regulated as a single source under the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) and state air pollution control statutes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies have sought to aggregate facilities where certain factors support a finding that the facilities are operationally related, and especially where the level of emissions from the combined source would trigger heightened regulatory or permitting requirements. National Fuel Gas Midstream v. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, No. 116 CD 2016 (June 2, 2017), provides some clarity about the meaning of the term "common control," one of the three factors for determining if facilities should be aggregated for air permitting purposes. The decision finds that regulated facilities should not be combined as a single source merely because they are each owned by a separate subsidiary of a shared corporate parent.
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By Catelyn McDonough | July 6, 2017
Over 9,000 lawsuits have now been filed in state and federal courts around the country against Johnson & Johnson and DePuy, alleging its DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implant device was manufactured defectively, the risks of which the company failed to warn doctors and patients. Allegations include more frequent and rapid device failures due to the metal-on-metal design flaw, leading to severe injuries like tissue death, bone erosion and high levels of metal in the blood. Like any mass tort of this magnitude, the cases were consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) in 2011 in the Northern District of Texas, presided over by the U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade in Dallas. Part of the MDL process includes a bellwether selection, during which the parties select cases they want a jury to hear—bellwethers—with the goal of moving the overall litigation toward a global resolution (bellwether literally means the sheep with the bell on its neck, leading the entire flock).
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 6, 2017
Pennsylvania special education attorney Gabrielle Sereni, a partner in the Delaware County law firm Raffaele Puppio, spoke at the Special Education Law Symposium held at Lehigh University.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 6, 2017
Meyer, Unkovic & Scott attorney Lance Woods was named by the National Bar Association as one of this year's "40 Under 40" award recipients.
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By dailybusinessreview | Daily Business Review | July 6, 2017
Lawyers, including ex-judges, call for the rejection of a proposed rule for mediator certification.
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By Theodore "Ted" Simon | July 6, 2017
The article published on June 28 titled "City Sees Funding Hurdle as FJD Raises Rates for Appointed Counsel" mentions that the First Judicial District has agreed to raise fees for court appointed counsel.
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