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19 Jun 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
”The court also pointed to Supreme Court precedent upholding Sunday closing laws. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 7:35 pm by Anthony Gaughan
Supreme Court effectively upheld a ruling by the Pennsylvania supreme court last month that the 2011 map violated the Pennsylvania state constitution. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 1:42 am by Paul Caron
Howard Bashman reports that the Pennsylvania has agreed to hear an interesting case on the meaning of the phrase "purely public charity" in the Pennsylvania constitution: The specific question that the court has granted review to consider and resolve is: Whether the Pennsylvania Legislature's enactment of criteria in Act 55... [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 8:27 am by Daniel E. Cummins, Esq.
Tort Talkers may recall that we have been waiting for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to voice its opinion on the propriety of the practice of some trial court judges choosing to leave the bench during jury selection and allowing the litigating attorneys to conduct voir dire on their own.The Pennsylvania Supreme Court was positioned to answer this question in its decision in the case of Trigg v. [read post]
The US Supreme Court Friday ordered Pennsylvania election boards to segregate mail-in ballots arriving after 8:00 PM on November 3rd. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 8:29 am by K&L Gates
The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts issued a press release Tuesday announcing that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has established a Twitter feed to "increase online access to its rulings:"  The specially designated site will provide instant notification of the online posting of most Supreme Court information, such as orders, new rules, opinions and concurring and dissenting statements… [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 5:00 am by Daniel E. Cummins, Esq.
As such, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the Pennsylvania Superior Court had erred in not reserving the trial court on this basis. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 8:26 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has announced substantial revisions to its Rules of Professional Conduct. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 6:28 am by Jerry Votava
[JURIST] The Pennsylvania Supreme Court [official website] has rejected [order, PDF] the final appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal [Philadelphia Inquirer backgrounder; JURIST news archive], a former member of the Black Panthers who was convicted of killing a police officer in Philadelphia in 1981. [read post]
16 Mar 2022, 12:16 pm by Attorney Ketchel
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has ruled against making a warrantless search based solely on the smell of cannabis. [read post]
1 Mar 2020, 4:11 am by Nicholas Mosvick
He was and remains the youngest person—at 32 years, 58 days—to be nominated to the Supreme Court in history. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 4:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
In In Re Estate of McAleer, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted review to determine "whether the attorney–client privilege and the work product doctrine may be invoked by a trustee to prevent disclosure to a beneficiary of communications between the trustee... [read post]
Admissibility of Evidence of Refusal to Submit to a Blood Test The court noted that the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Birchfield v. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 8:34 am by Daniel E. Cummins
.), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court addressed the the validity of a Section 1731 uninsured and underinsured rejection form. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 5:35 am by Daniel E. Cummins, Esq.
Geico as eradicating that exclusion across the board as intended in that case by the judicially activist Pennsylvania Supreme Court, has now been reissued as a published, precedential Pennsylvania Superior Court decision.As such the previous Tort Talk Blog post on this case is run again here with the appropriate changes in light of this development:An apparent split of authority has developed within the Pennsylvania Superior Court… [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 12:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
In In Re Passarelli Family Trust, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that "an irrevocable trust based on fraudulent inducement pursuant to 20 Pa.C.S. [read post]
12 Sep 2024, 1:00 am by The Nonprofit Blogger Named Below
Click here to listen to the oral argument starting around 3:12:00 On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard fascinating, instructive and probing oral arguments in Pottstown Sch. [read post]