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Ben Seal is managing editor of The American Lawyer. He joined the magazine in February 2018, and previously spent five years working for The Legal Intelligencer, editing the paper's magazines and supplements and reporting on Pennsylvania's state courts, legislature and Attorney General's Office. Contact him at [email protected] or @BSealTAL.
November 17, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane would expose staff in the Office of Attorney General to potential discipline if she were to engage in the unauthorized practice of law, her top deputies told her in a letter the day her license suspension went into effect. They expressed their concerns that anything Kane does to violate her ethical obligations would directly implicate the attorneys she is tasked with supervising.
By Ben Seal
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November 17, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Pennsylvania voters will have the chance to decide whether to raise the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75, following a state Senate vote. Combined HB 89 and HB 90, which would amend the Pennsylvania Constitution, passed the Senate on Monday and are set to appear as a ballot question in the April 26, 2016, primary election.
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November 16, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
In ruling on a raft of motions in limine in a products liability suit, a Clarion County trial judge said "considerable confusion" has been created by the state Supreme Court's 2014 decision in Tincher v. Omega Flex, which said Pennsylvania would continue to follow the Restatement (Second) of Torts.
By Ben Seal
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November 16, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Bad-faith penalties for government agencies that fail to pay contractors and stepparents' responsibility for child support are among the issues the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to hear this week in a relatively light argument session in Harrisburg, the last during Justice Correale F. Stevens' interim term.
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November 16, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Litigants are likely to push for the rehearing of certain hot-button issues by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as well as those decided by a deeply divided bench during its five-justice year, once a fully constituted, seven-member court is in place next year, appellate attorneys said.
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November 16, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
A woman whose cancer diagnosis was delayed more than four years by her doctors' failure to report a mass on her lung has been awarded a $3 million verdict by a Jefferson County jury. The verdict is the largest ever reported in Jefferson County, according to a review of The Legal's annual listing of top verdicts and settlements.
By Ben Seal
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November 13, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane changed course the afternoon of Nov. 13, reversing a decision she had made that morning to ignore a Senate committee's subpoena for information about the operations of the Office of Attorney General since her law license was suspended.
By Ben Seal and Lizzy McLellan
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November 10, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, appearing under oath last week to answer questions in Jerry Sandusky's appeal, insisted that she did not mean to imply she had information about the source of grand jury leaks.
By Ben Seal
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November 9, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
A change to the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure will provide clarity to both practitioners and judges on the subject of requests for oral argument on motions in trial court, attorneys said.
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November 9, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Commonwealth Court has vacated a $250,000 verdict against SEPTA because the plaintiff failed to sufficiently demonstrate liability under the jerk-and-jolt doctrine.
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