The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Daniel E. Cummins | February 7, 2019
Over the past year, the Pennsylvania state trial and appellate courts have continued to grapple with issues pertaining to social media discovery as well as the admissibility of social media evidence at trial.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephen A. Miller and Leigh Ann Benson | January 9, 2019
The Supreme Court is currently re-considering the separate sovereigns exception to the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause. This doctrine, which has existed for nearly 200 years, allows a state government to bring charges for conduct that has already been the subject of federal prosecution (and vice versa).
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Daniel E. Cummins | December 13, 2018
Over the past year there have been dramatic reversals of long-standing law by a newly activist Pennsylvania Supreme Court. There have been clarifications of recurring civil litigation issues by both the Superior Court and Commonwealth Court.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | December 5, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reinstated a $2.1 million jury award that mistakenly included compensation for future wage loss, finding that the defendant waived its right to challenge the verdict by failing to object at several intervals during trial.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jules Epstein | November 8, 2018
Jules EpsteinOn Oct. 25, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted two amendments to the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence—the definitions of "Present Sense Impressions" and "Excited Utterances" both had new language added. Each rule now concludes with the following statement:
By Dan M. Clark | October 25, 2018
Uber has agreed to pay a record $148 million in state and local penalties to settle allegations that the company intentionally concealed a major data breach in 2016 that exposed the personal information of 57 million people, with $5.7 million going to Pennsylvania, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office said.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | October 25, 2018
The justices ruled 4-3 to reverse a unanimous Superior Court decision upholding a Centre County trial judge's denial of defendant Randy Valdivia's motion to suppress all evidence seized from his vehicle during the traffic stop.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | October 24, 2018
The work product doctrine that bars the mental impressions of attorneys from discovery should cover pre-litigation emails between lawyers and public relations professionals, an attorney for a hospital company argued to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | October 18, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a jury would be best poised to decide whether a couple's medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in time.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Edward T. Kang and Kandis L. Kovalsky | October 18, 2018
Today, there are close to 3,000 emojis in the Unicode Standard. As such, people can communicate a lot more through emojis, if they choose. And, the data shows this is what people are choosing.
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