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By Max Mitchell | September 16, 2020
According to the claimant's attorney, the case offers the court an opportunity to outline the standards that should be taken into account for traveling employees and what constitutes "abandonment of employment" that would render them ineligible for compensation.
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By Max Mitchell | September 15, 2020
Justices heard arguments in a case first filed by a plaintiff against the city of Philadelphia after he was partially paralyzed after hitting a sinkhole during a 20-mile charity bike ride in 2015.
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By Max Mitchell | September 14, 2020
Western District of Pennsylvania Judge William Stickman determined the limitations on gatherings were arbitrary and not tailored in a sufficiently narrow manner.
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By Max Mitchell | September 4, 2020
According to the complaint, the issue of late mail-in ballots has not been raised in any government proposals, or any of the lawsuits now underway in Pennsylvania.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 13, 2020
"We take this opportunity to clarify that when a party moves to amend or add a party after the deadline in a district court's scheduling order has passed, the 'good cause' standard of Rule 16(b)(4) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure applies," Judge Thomas Hardiman wrote in the court's precedential Aug. 12 opinion. "A party must meet this standard before a district court considers whether the party also meets Rule 15(a)'s more liberal standard."
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By Max Mitchell | August 4, 2020
Although the central questions in the cases differ slightly, both could provide guidance to attorneys on lingering questions about a person's reasonable expectation of privacy in their cellphone location data, and the level of court scrutiny that must be sought by prosecutors in order to obtain that information.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 30, 2020
"The problem with plaintiffs' argument is that it wrongly assumes the burden is on defendants to provide enough information to prove their document search was reasonable," U.S. District Judge Berle Schiller of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said.
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By Max Mitchell | June 25, 2020
U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh found the challenges of dealing with community unrest following the death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic makes the opening of nonprofit safe injenction site Safehouse "unrealistic any time soon."
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 8, 2020
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a former University of the Sciences student who claimed his expulsion was the result of a biased university investigation into his sexual encounters with two women.
The Legal Intelligencer | Live Coverage
By Zack Needles | May 28, 2020
Do natural gas lease agreements entered into by drillers and private landowners fall under the state Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law's definition of "trade or commerce"? That was the question before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on May 27, the third day of livestreamed oral arguments.
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