By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017
A plaintiff engaged in improper forum shopping where she named defendants who were not proper parties to the action for the purpose of manipulating the venue rules to create venue where it did not properly exist. The court ordered the matter to be transferred to another county where venue was appropriate.
By Zack Needles | July 21, 2017
A business can still appeal directly from a local government's denial of an intermunicipal liquor license transfer, despite the Pennsylvania Liquor Code's prohibition on appeals, a sharply divided Commonwealth Court en banc has ruled in a published opinion.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 21, 2017
Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's claims of tortious interference with contractual relations, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, conversion, and civil conspiracy based on plaintiff's former employee setting up his own business and soliciting plaintiff's customers using confidential information he obtained while working for plaintiff. Motion dismissed.
By Max Mitchell | July 17, 2017
A hot dog by any other name, including a name similar to a well-known sausage company, is not likely to confuse consumers as long as it is clearly labeled on the packaging, a federal appeals court said in dismissing a trademark and false advertising suit brought by a sausage company.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 14, 2017
The defendant tenant did not give a clear manifestation of assent to the use of a warrant-of-attorney provision in an original lease where the parties executed three subsequent amendments which made only general references to the warrant-of-attorney provision. The court granted defendant's petition to strike a confessed judgment.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 7, 2017
City's sugary drink tax was not double-tax prohibited by Sterling Act where tax was calculated on volume basis and imposed upon distributors, as opposed to state tax on retail sales imposed upon consumers. Order of the trial court affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 7, 2017
The plaintiffs, minority shareholders in the defendant business, had knowledge of every shareholder meeting and participated in every vote; thus, their rights were not violated when the majority shareholders voted to sell corporate assets and they had no grounds to stop the sale. The court recommended affirmance of its order denying plaintiffs relief.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 28, 2017
A federal judge has denied a renewed motion for class certification by indirect purchasers in the egg price-fixing antitrust litigation.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | May 23, 2017
New partners come from King & Spalding.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | May 8, 2017
It wasn't a fly in his soup but worms in his meal that caused a man to sue an Indian airline. But a federal judge—presumably with a stronger stomach—tossed the suit, pointing to a law that protects foreign companies.
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