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12 Dec 2023, 5:00 am
The court declined to create a bright-line rule to determine when punitive damages are to be considered to be unconstitutionally excessive.In this case, the jury had awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages as well as a total of $2.8 million dollars in punitive damages. [read post]
26 Dec 2019, 12:59 pm by Daniel E. Cummins, Esq.
“The Supreme Court has become like a snowplow truck, clearing precedent off the highway of Pennsylvania law and dropping salt as it passes by to melt away any remnants of the law as we knew it,” Cummins said, specifically regarding the Gallagher decision.According to Cummins, that ruling was the latest in a line of cases overturning precedent that included 2018′s Balentine v. [read post]
1 Oct 2019, 10:15 am by Overhauser Law Offices, LLC
EST. 2016 5857784 CUMMINS SALES AND SERVICE 5854096 LINDEN 5851772 CONNECTED SOLUTIONS 5851741 DEFLECTO [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 5:59 am
*"Tips" for illustrative purposes only, and definitely not legal advice.In Cummins v. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 4:49 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
”The Superior Court’s decision in Trigg is in line with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s jury selection decision last year in the case of Shinal v. [read post]
20 May 2016, 6:00 am by Daniel E. Cummins
Cummins, Pennsylvania Law Weekly May 17 2016  A riddle of negligence law has always been to what extent the orbit of responsibility extends outward from a tortfeasor's conduct toward an injured party so as to render the tortfeasor potentially liable as a matter of law.As noted by Dean Prosser in his hornbook on torts and as stated by former Justice Benjamin Cardozo in his famous decision in the case of Palsgraf v. [read post]