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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 13, 2017
The former same-sex partner of a child's biological mother cannot claim she is entitled to custody of the child since she has no biological connection to him, nor has she legally adopted him, the state Superior Court has ruled.
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By Lizzy McLellan | October 13, 2017
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has revived a legal malpractice suit against Dechert, ruling that the firm could have done more to prevent a court's legal error in Tahiti.
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By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 12, 2017
A former professor who was fired after creating an online parody video depicting faculty members as Nazis can proceed with his breach of contract claims against the university where he worked, a federal court in Pennsylvania has ruled.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 12, 2017
In response to perceived plaintiff-friendly jury instructions suggested in the wake of the state Supreme Court's landmark products liability ruling in Tincher v. Omega Flex, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute has released its own list of suggested jury instructions.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 12, 2017
In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and in the midst of a fierce national debate over gun control, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that a former state trooper, who over a decade ago was involuntarily committed to a hospital for attempting suicide, can own firearms.
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By Max Mitchell | October 12, 2017
During the oral argument session that is set to begin Tuesday the state Supreme Court is set to wade into muddy waters over quantum meruit claims for non-partner lawyers, and hear arguments on an issue that some say could have a chilling effect on the workers' compensation bar.
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By Zack Needles | The Legal Intelligencer | October 12, 2017
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court won't disturb a state Superior Court ruling that an arbitration award in a motor vehicle accident case did not collaterally estop a plaintiff from seeking underinsured motorist benefits.
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By Ben Seal | October 12, 2017
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services cannot be compelled to disclose nursing home provider rates if it does not possess or control the financial records requested under the Right-to-Know Law, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | The Legal Intelligencer | October 11, 2017
A project management oversight company that supervised an Amtrak construction project has agreed to pay the federal government $900,000 to resolve civil claims of improper billing, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has announced.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | October 11, 2017
The city of Scranton, the Borough of Dunmore in Lackawanna County and two law firms that represented them during the sale of the Scranton Sewer Authority have been sued by a property owner alleging they unlawfully raked in over $87 million from the sale.
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