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Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
February 18, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
The defendant gun designer and manufacturer, Sig Sauer, doesn't "confront the fact their gun is prone to defective firing and somebody's going to get killed unless they're recalled and fixed," said the ICE agent plaintiff, Keith Slatowski, who is represented in part by the Philadelphia-based law firm of Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky.
By Jason Grant
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February 11, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
The court "conclude[s] that the phrase 'physical loss of or damage to property' [found in the policy's 'business income' coverage provision] unambiguously requires some issue with the physical premises that impedes business operations," wrote Judge John Jones III.
By Jason Grant
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February 9, 2021 | Law.com
"The counterclaim in this case is a strategy to silence racial justice advocates that you might expect from segregationists in the South in the 1950s," one law professor said of a recent action lodged by the city of Detroit against Black Lives Matter protesters alleging civil conspiracy.
By Jason Grant
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January 29, 2021 | Law.com
"The risk of invisibility is even more acute with women of color," attorney Debbie Epstein Henry said during a recent New York State Bar Association panel on the challenges of retaining and advancing women attorneys.
By Jason Grant
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December 28, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
As part of the ruling, Court of Common Pleas Judge Terrence Nealon found that in Pennsylvania it is still unclear whether the "reasonable expectations" doctrine, in the negligence context, can be applied to a commercial insured such as the gym that has brought the insurance coverage lawsuit.
By Jason Grant
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December 10, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
"Plaintiff counsel tried to discuss and arrange acceptance of service with defendant counsel who was already involved in the case," and "defendant counsel was aware of the claims made" and "knew a complaint had been filed," wrote Judge David Williamson in the opinion.
By Jason Grant
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December 7, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The court in a federal case that ruled oppositely "may have been reading the skywriting on the wall, but this court will not decide that issue in favor of British Airways when the Third Circuit has decided that this Pennsylvania law [on registration of foreign businesses] is constitutionally sound and requires finding personal jurisdiction," wrote Judge Berle Schiller of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
By Jason Grant
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November 5, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
"The determination of when [the former client] reasonably should have been aware of the cause of her [alleged malpractice] injury should have been deferred to the finder of fact," not decided summarily by the trial court, wrote the Pennsylvania Superior Court on Delaware County in a decision allowed the former client's suit to proceed.
By Jason Grant
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October 29, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
"Courts can and should craft discovery orders that strike a proper balance between … privacy interests [of the parties disclosing information] and the rights of other parties," wrote the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in its opinion.
By Jason Grant
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October 1, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
In all, it appears the client and a co-defendant have had judgments handed down that mandate fee-related payments of more than 217,000 to lawyer Albert Oehrle, according to the decision.
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