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Aleeza Furman

Aleeza Furman

Aleeza Furman is a Philadelphia-based litigation reporter with The Legal Intelligencer. Contact her at [email protected].

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September 09, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Immunities and Parentage Rights: What's on the Pa. Supreme Court's September Agenda

The 10 cases slated to go before the justices touch on issues including the scope of prosecutorial immunity, parentage of children conceived through assistive reproductive technology, and a transit system's claim to sovereign immunity.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

September 05, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Election Litigation Mounts With Lots of Backing From Big Law

"The sort of systemic issues we have right now are new, and that's bringing a lot of legal firepower into it," said Dechert partner Martin Black.

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September 04, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Jury Awards $9M to Estate of Golf Course Worker Killed by Falling Tree

And alongside making determinations on liability and damages, the jury also answered what plaintiffs counsel said was an unusual question to find on a verdict sheet in a personal injury case: whether one of the defendants was the decedent's employer.

By Aleeza Furman

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September 03, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Special Master OKs $1M in Legal Fee Awards Against Sanctioned Pa. County and Lawyer

Jubelirer's report comes more than a year after the state Supreme Court sanctioned Fulton County and attorney Thomas Carroll for "dilatory, obdurate, and vexatious conduct, as well as conduct in bad faith" in the county's challenge to the secretary of state's authority to decertify voting machines.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

August 30, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Fired Defender Association Lawyer's ADA Claims Should Head to Trial, Pa. Fed Judge Rules

The EEOC alleged that the Defender Association wrongfully terminated and failed to accommodate a public defender diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

August 29, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Offit Kurman Hit With $4M Legal Mal Judgment Over Client's Multimillion-Dollar Loss

"A lawyer's job is to do the best you can with whatever the facts are," Mitts said, "but you can't skew the game by failing to respond to requests."

By Aleeza Furman

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August 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

3rd Circuit: TikTok Cannot Evade Claims That Its Algorithm Caused 10-Year-Old's Death

"This was the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catch-all immunity that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman, who represents the plaintiff, said.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

August 27, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Glen Mills Schools Mass Tort Gets New Bellwether Dates After Pause in Trial Schedule

The first trials in the program had initially been scheduled to kick off earlier this summer, but those proceedings were put on hold while the parties engaged in court-ordered mediation.

By Aleeza Furman

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August 27, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Tosses Uber's 'Creative' Bid to Compel Arbitration of Employee's Claims

Murphy held that "compelling arbitration in the present action could impair the PHRC's interest in investigating future charges of discrimination filed by individuals who are subject to an arbitration clause."

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August 26, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the Internet Age, the Risk of Outside Info Reaching Jurors Has 'Never Been Higher'

"Now virtually every case that goes to trial, there is information relevant to that case available in seconds at [jurors'] fingertips, and the only thing preventing them from searching is the judge's instructions and admonitions," John Gismondi said.

By Aleeza Furman

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