With the recent re-election of President Obama, the recurring issue of national tort reform, which was quiet during this presidential campaign, goes back on the shelf to gather more dust until another election day. In the meantime, jurisprudence in Pennsylvania meandered on and off the straight path of stare decisis with notable shifts in the law over the past year.

This second part of a two-part column analyzes the important trends and cases of the year 2012 in general Pennsylvania civil litigation matters.

A Short-Handed High Court