The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Daniel E. Cummins | June 1, 2023
Over the past five years or so, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has been issuing one decision after another, along with civil litigation rule changes, most, if not all of which, have greatly favored personal injury plaintiffs' causes. A couple of recent decisions by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have tempered this sense of futility for some.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Ben Baer and Javier Puga | June 1, 2023
With these amendments, CHRIA will now provide litigators with an important investigative tool, while maintaining the integrity of the criminal investigations and prosecutions. In enacting these important amendments, the legislature has provided a specific statutory process for requesting criminal records related to an ongoing or potential civil action.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | May 30, 2023
The question on appeal was whether the district court had jurisdiction, with Smith determining there was "no basis for exercising federal jurisdiction."
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | May 25, 2023
Ronald Kelly was awarded $4.6 million, in accordance with the amount of damages that were factually caused by the motor vehicle accident, and Patrice Kelly was awarded $1 million in damages for her loss of consortium claim.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jules Epstein | May 25, 2023
The case warrants a post-mortem to assess the tools of evidence law that may have contributed to the verdict.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Will Sylianteng | May 25, 2023
The more troubling issue for us practitioners lies not with the denials made by the rich and famous, but rather, the "deepfake denials" we are likely to see with increasing frequency in our more mundane cases, now that the AI technology used to create these "deepfakes" become more readily available to the public.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | May 22, 2023
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a class action alleging home decor store Kirkland's violated the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act by displaying too much of customers' debit and credit card numbers on receipts failed to show a sufficient risk of harm.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | May 19, 2023
In a May 16 opinion, Stickman determined that BESCO's act of filing a third-party complaint was expressly permitted by the parties' contract agreement, which contained an arbitration clause.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By James M. Beck | May 18, 2023
This article aims to save appellate practitioners time and money by reviewing what nonprivilege questions have recently—post-Dougherty—supported, or not, interlocutory appeals under Rule 313(b)'s collateral order test. It should be emphasized, however, that a party's failure to take an available interlocutory appeal of a collateral order does not waive later objections to that order.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | May 12, 2023
The suit stems from the COVID-19 pandemic halting the university's ability to hold in-person events, which Runaway had agreed to provide audio and visual production, broadcasting, videotaping and other productions goods for, as outlined in their agreement from February 2020.
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