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The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Uphold Restrictions on Gaming Board Lawyers

The state Supreme Court has dismissed a Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board lawyer's challenge to board regulations banning its attorneys from working for casinos, racetracks and other gaming centers for two years after leaving the board.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Judge: Negligence Suit Over Electrical Fire Not Fit for PUC

A trial court, not the Public Utility Commission, is the appropriate jurisdiction for a negligence lawsuit against PECO Energy Co. stemming from a home fire, a Philadelphia judge has ruled.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Approved Opinions for the Week of June 6, 2017

23-2-3395 Leggette v. Gov. Employees Insur. Co. ("GEICO"), N.J. Super. App. Div. (Lihotz, P.J.A.D.)  (14 pp.) The issue of first impression presented…
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New Jersey Law Journal

Unpublished Opinions for the Week of June 6, 2017

07-2-3381 Riddick v. Twp. of Jackson, N.J. Super. App. Div. (per curiam) (4 pp.) Appellant filed suit against respondent-Township, in addition to individual…
49 minute read

Legaltech News

App Bar: Perkins Coie CoinLaw, FBI Wanted and More

A look inside four apps revolutionizing the world of law this June, from blockchain regulations to the U.S. Constitution to NYC parking tickets.
12 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Supreme Court Should Enforce Broken Promises

A Daytona Beach real estate redevelopment case with a key broken promise should be heard by the court, writes attorney Dana Berliner.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Rush, PICS Case No. 17-0844 (Pa. Super. May 11, 2017) Moulton, J. (28 pages).

Trial court did not err in refusing to charge jury on element of malice derived from third-degree murder offense where such element was not a part of the statutory offenses of torture of a police animal and animal cruelty. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Bey v. Superintendent Greene SCI, PICS Case No. 17-0851 (3 Cir. May 10, 2107) McKee, J. (23 pages).

District court erred in denying habeas relief on appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on trial counsel's failure to challenge the trial court's erroneous 'Kloiber' jury instruction because appellant's procedural default was excused and the trial court's deviation from the language in 'Kloiber' basically told jurors that they had to accept the officer's eyewitness identification and were not free to question it. Vacated and remanded.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Former Water Utility Exec Joins McNees Wallace

McNees Wallace & Nurick has brought on a longtime water company executive as a lawyer in its financial services and public finance practices.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Students Subjected to Invasive Body Searches Sue South Georgia Sheriff

An Atlanta lawyer representing students subjected to invasive body searches during a mass—and warrantless—drug sweep at a South Georgia high school says the local sheriff who orchestrated the sweep conducted "900 illegal, suspicionless searches."
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