JURIST

MARCH 3, 2021

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Allegheny County Judge Anthony Mariani, alleging that Mariani violated the public’s First Amendment rights by blocking virtual access to courtroom proceedings.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Courts in Georgia and Pennsylvania are named as top "judicial hellholes" for their friendliness to tort plaintiffs in a report by the American Tort Reform…

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HowAppealing

APRIL 19, 2021

Supreme Court dismisses the last challenge over Pennsylvania’s 2020 election; The case was the last of a torrent of litigation over the conduct of Pennsylvania’s election, which drew intense scrutiny and several appeals to the nation’s highest court”: Jonathan Lai of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2023

The US Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit Tuesday ruled against Adelphia Gateway, LLC (Adelphia) in a challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Hearing Board’s jurisdiction to hear challenges to Adelphia’s planned natural gas compressor project. Later, Adelphia got approval from DEP.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

You’d be surprised at the number of times that people in child custody battles ignore and violate court orders.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). Photo by Mark Koch on Unsplash. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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Law 360

APRIL 26, 2022

Supreme Court's decision on Monday to take up a case about the reach of a Pennsylvania law could have a "seismic impact" on corporate litigation if the justices rule that a state can exercise jurisdiction over companies registered to do business there, legal experts told Law360.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. A three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A trio of Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation company told a Pennsylvania federal court on Friday they are owed combined costs of nearly $200,000 from an attorney who lost a malicious litigation jury trial against them in December.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Department of Justice has broad, but not unfettered, authority to dismiss whistleblower lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act’s qui tam provision even when the government initially elected to allow the whistleblower to proceed with the action.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Much attention has been devoted recently to the increased calls for emergency relief from the Supreme Court in fast-paced ligation on the shadow docket. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the readers who decided to continue past my opening paragraph, Great Lakes Insurance falls within the admiralty power of the federal courts, which authorizes the federal judiciary to articulate a federal common law for maritime contracts. So exactly why would that question ever matter?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

But a Middle District of Pennsylvania court recently established one key limit on states’ authority to block new transmission lines through the siting process. PJM Interconnection is one such RTO, which oversees a region encompassing thirteen states, including Pennsylvania, along with the District of Columbia. Defrank The U.S.

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Law 360

AUGUST 21, 2023

and the class of end payors who accused it of monopolizing the market on Suboxone, an opioid addiction treatment, have agreed to resolve their dispute in a $30 million settlement agreement filed in the Pennsylvania federal court overseeing the multidistrict litigation surrounding the drug. Indivior Inc.

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Law 360

AUGUST 30, 2024

A Pennsylvania clothing manufacturer panned Nike Inc.'s s alleged "intransigence" and obstructive conduct in fighting a trademark infringement lawsuit, as the business pushed for attorneys fees in federal court following a remand from the Third Circuit.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 5, 2022

I created a litigation workflow for pre-lit and litigation as I learned the terms and their place in line. We had just expanded into property damage litigation there, and no paralegal yet knew how Florida operates. Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp. I learned the content. I taught myself our work in Florida. L EARN MORE.

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Law 360

AUGUST 17, 2021

A recent Pennsylvania federal court decision compelling Rutter's Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. And it is the latest in a string of cases pushing the federal courts out of second-guessing state election laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S. New Jersey.

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Law 360

JANUARY 10, 2025

A lawyer who lost her malicious litigation case against Blank Rome LLP attorneys and an aviation company in Philadelphia last month has moved for a new trial in Pennsylvania federal court, citing what she called "numerous errors committed by the district court" in her first trial.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that the answer to this question was no. LLC (Raiders) is a company organized under the laws of Pennsylvania. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2025

A team of Blank Rome LLP attorneys accused another attorney in Pennsylvania federal court of "seeking another bite at the apple" by moving for a new trial after a jury rejected her malicious litigation claims against the team and an aviation company.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. Zapata Off-Shore Co.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Justice Department intervenes in a 2019 Rite Aid case, moving the case to Ohio.

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2024

Koninklijke Philips NV filed a third-party complaint in Pennsylvania federal court against SoClean Inc., which sells cleaning products for breathing devices, claiming SoClean and its parent should contribute to Philips' $1 billion settlement because its cleaners allegedly exacerbated the foam breakdown at the heart of the litigation.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

At the other end of the spectrum, New Jersey and Pennsylvania provide no homestead exemptions, while Virginia and Kentucky allow just $5,000. Another is that it would turn any existing court judgment into a lien on a person’s home, automatically and retroactively. Morris Institute of Justice, in a commentary.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing sprawling multidistrict litigation against generic-drug makers on Thursday told the U.S.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

accused the company and Blank Rome LLP Wednesday in Pennsylvania federal court of pursuing "frivolous" litigation against her, claiming they sought to destroy her livelihood because she joined a plaintiffs' firm that frequently sues aviation manufacturers. A trial attorney who used to defend plane parts manufacturer Avco Corp.

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Law 360

JANUARY 23, 2024

have each agreed to shell out a combined $45 million to settle allegations they colluded to fix the prices of many medications, according to a trio of motions filed Tuesday in multidistrict litigation in Pennsylvania federal court. Generic-drug makers Apotex Corp., Heritage Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2019

This week, the lawsuit brought by the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) against new performing rights organization GMR (Global Music Rights ) for alleged violations of the antitrust laws was determined by a court in Pennsylvania to have been brought in the wrong place – and transferred to a court in California.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A Pennsylvania Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee is not covered for the antitrust litigation it is facing, part of which has been settled for $2.67 billion, because the litigation was related to previous claims, its excess errors and omissions insurer told a Pennsylvania federal court.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

million to settle litigation claiming they should have paid workers for their time spent in security screenings at a number of warehouses in Pennsylvania, a deal that comes after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court weighed in on the issue. Amazon.com and a staffing company have agreed to pay $7.2

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Mondaq

JULY 28, 2021

The Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently held that three insurance companies are not obligated to defend or indemnify Tristar Products Inc. in a proposed class action lawsuit, finding that the underlying litigation.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This Week, the Senate confirmed John Murphy to become a Federal District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He he clerked for Judge Kimberly Moore and has been litigating patents at Baker Hostetler (Philly) since 2007. (He He was originally with Woodcock Washburn and that firmed merged with Baker in 2014).

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