By Max Mitchell | August 10, 2017
Philadelphia's new District Attorney Kelley Hodge may have less than five months left on her interim term as the city's chief law enforcement officer, but she plans to accomplish quite a lot.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 7, 2017
Navient, the federal government's student loan servicer, can't shake claims that it mishandled students' payments and miscommunicated with them about repayment plans, a federal judge has ruled.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 3, 2017
In 2010, plaintiff Nancy Brown, a veterinarian, had a portion of her land, in Plymouth Meeting, taken by the state.
By Carl W. Hittinger and Tyson Y. Herrold | July 28, 2017
In June, we discussed the Trump administration's candidate for the top post in the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division: Makan Delrahim. During Delrahim's confirmation hearing, Sen. Amy Klobuchar pressed him, "What would you do, if you're in this job, if the president, or the vice president, or a White House staffer calls, and wants to discuss a pending investigation of an antitrust matter?" Delrahim responded, "The role of the assistant attorney general for antitrust is a law enforcement function," and that "politics will have no role in the enforcement of the antitrust laws." Delrahim's comment appeared to placate Klobuchar's present concerns about White House intercession or interference in pending antitrust investigations, although a confirmation vote by the full Senate is still pending. However, viewed historically, the constitutional role of the executive branch and the president in particular in dictating, directing and controlling antitrust enforcement policy is far more complex and nuanced. As is often the case, history provides the necessary context to answer thorny constitutional questions.
By Max Mitchell | July 21, 2017
The First Judicial District's Board of Judges has selected Kelley Hodge to be Philadelphia's district attorney, marking the first time an African-American woman has served as the city's top prosecutor. She has been named to fill the post in the interim until a new district attorney can be elected in November and sworn in in January 2018.
By Zack Needles | July 21, 2017
A business can still appeal directly from a local government's denial of an intermunicipal liquor license transfer, despite the Pennsylvania Liquor Code's prohibition on appeals, a sharply divided Commonwealth Court en banc has ruled in a published opinion.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 21, 2017
Commonwealth court erred in finding that appellant failed to establish a claim under the utility exception to the tort claims act because, under the exception, the focus had to be on whether the injuries alleged were caused by a dangerous condition which had its source in the local agency's utility service facility. Reversed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 21, 2017
Plaintiff failed to produce sufficient evidence that the City of Philadelphia was on constructive notice of a sidewalk defect through evidence that city employees had visited the area for purposes other than to inspect or clean the sidewalk. The court recommended affirmance of an order denying plaintiff's motion to set aside a nonsuit.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 21, 2017
Fiscal enactments diverting proceeds from sale and lease of public natural resources away from environmental conservation into the general fund violated commonwealth's obligation as trustee, since proceeds from trust assets were required to be returned to corpus of trust or dedicated to trust purposes. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
By Lizzy McLellan | July 20, 2017
In the wake of several high-profile grand jury investigations in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court has enlisted a team to re-evaluate how grand juries operate.
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