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26 Mar 2013, 4:07 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has accepted an appeal in the case of Tincher v. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 4:19 pm by Daniel E. Cummins, Esq.
., Dissenting), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court addressed the duty of a mental health treatment provider to warn individuals who may be the subject of their patient’s threats.According to the Opinion, a mental health patient lived in an apartment building and repeatedly told his doctors and therapist that he would kill an unnamed “neighbor. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 4:55 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the Superior Court's prohibition against the use of the "error in judgment" jury instruction in medical malpractice cases.The "error in judgment" jury instruction was previously utilized by trial court judges to advise jurors that physicians were not liable for their "errors in  judgment" when making medical decisions.With its decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court supported… [read post]
25 Oct 2021, 1:02 pm by Steve Lash
— Campaign spending in Pennsylvania Supreme Court race exceeds $5 million. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 5:39 am by Daniel E. Cummins, Esq.
  The Court reviewed several notable United States Supreme Court Opinions, the most recent of which was in the case of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. [read post]
10 Dec 2003, 6:45 am
In election law news for Wednesday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this morning in Vieth v. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 5:30 am by Daniel E. Cummins
.), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that neither a subcontractor nor a subcontractor’s sole shareholder was an “independent contractor” relative to the statutory employer provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 3:00 am by Doug Austin
Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted amendments to the rules on how discovery of electronically stored information is handled in the state. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 8:11 am
  So here’s what the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently did to an AWP “verdict. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 10:34 am by Daniel E. Cummins
.), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court clarified the steps necessary to preserve for appeal any objections with regards to the trial court’s instructions to the jury at trial. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 10:27 pm by Tom Smith
Is not the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (or whatever it is called) the highest interpreter of Pennsylvania's sovereign utterances? [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 8:25 am by Justin Cosgrove
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court [official website] on Monday upheld [opinion, PDF] the authority of Governor Tom Wolf [official website] to postpone executions in the commonwealth. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 5:05 am by Derek Black
On April 21, 2015, the trial court in Pennsylvania, where petitioners filed a lawsuit claiming the state is failing to adequately and equitably fund its public schools, interpreted prior state supreme court precedent as eliminating the courts' role in such a case. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 7:41 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
Nov. 19, 2014  ), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the $500,000 statutory cap on tort claim recoveries against local governmental agencies under the Tort Claims Act, 42 Pa.C.S.A. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 7:54 am by Daniel E. Cummins
Sept. 28, 2017), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to adopt a bright-line rule for the admissibility of predicating the admissibility of a person's blood alcohol content (BAC) on the existence of independent corroborating evidence of intoxication. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 5:02 pm by Amy Howe
The Pennsylvania GOP asked the justices to review a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a lawsuit filed by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. [read post]
23 May 2012, 6:28 pm by Schachtman
Today, mirabile dictu, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Superior Court’s errant opinion. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 6:28 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
The latest talk of the town is the Order handed down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on July 27, 2010 in the case of GEICO v. [read post]
The Elder Justice Consortium, with representatives appearing on behalf of each of the 9 law schools in Pennsylvania, made their second "in person" report to the Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, with the event this year taking place on... [read post]