ABA Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month.

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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday denied petitions in Pennsylvania and North Carolina election map cases, allowing new district maps to go into effect. North Carolina’s Supreme Court delayed its primary elections from March to May 2022 because of this litigation.

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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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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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ABA Journal

MAY 16, 2024

It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Fetterman campaign claims that Pennsylvania's practice of discounting incorrectly dated mail-in ballots could disenfranchise thousands of otherwise eligible voters.

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LegalReader

JULY 22, 2021

In their 5-2 split decision, the justices found that Amazon must abide by Pennsylvania's minimum wage laws, which are stricter than their federal counterparts.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2022

State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. The states are led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.

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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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ABA Journal

JUNE 2, 2021

A Pennsylvania judge who was facing misconduct allegations over outbursts at attorneys and litigants in his courtroom resigned Tuesday. The Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania…

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Election litigation was heating up in battleground states as voters went to the polls Tuesday. Lawsuits have been filed over undated absentee ballots in Pennsylvania,…

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Law 360

APRIL 3, 2023

Walgreens Boots Alliance and the Rite Aid investors suing them over the drugstore chains' failed merger should probably be in settlement talks, a Pennsylvania federal judge hinted as he refused to toss or narrow the litigation.

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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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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, the constitutions of six states do have provisions with explicit environmental rights – Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. The court therefore allowed the litigation to proceed. If the final plan falls short, some litigants may well invoke this amendment.

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LegalReader

JUNE 15, 2022

The parents claim that a first-grade teacher educated students on gender dysphoria and other transgender-related issues without detailing the course in the class curriculum or giving families the chance to opt out.

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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.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Multiple other states have also enshrined environmental protections into their state constitutions, including Pennsylvania, Hawaii, and New York. In 1999, the Montana Supreme Court held that the right to a clean and healthful environment is a fundamental right under the state constitution.

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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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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A chapter of the Mennonite Church is being sued over allegations that it subjected residents to forced labor.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The lawsuit alleges that a chapter of the Mennonite Church sent "troubled" boys and young adults to Liberty Ridge Farms, where they were abused and forced to perform hard labor.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” Dennis Owens and Madison Montag of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s WHTM ABC 27 have this report. The organization’s new president is a partner in the appellate group at K&L Gates , while the president-elect works as supervisor of the Federal Litigation Unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed almost 1,200 suits in a multidistrict litigation over allegations that Merck's shingles vaccine caused the disease after the plaintiffs were unable to show their outbreaks were not caused by a "wild" strain of the virus.

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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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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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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? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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Law 360

AUGUST 17, 2021

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

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Law 360

APRIL 7, 2025

Gunmaker Sig Sauer has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss a proposed class action filed against it over a recall involving battery-powered firearm optics, claiming the plaintiff decided to initiate litigation despite not suffering any negative effects from it.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Pennsylvania parkway project will unjustly affect Black residents, NAACP contends in new lawsuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

After several years of litigation, however, DOJ sought to have the case dismissed over Polansky’s objection, questioning its likelihood of success and pointing to concerns about the discovery burden being placed on the government and possible disclosure of privileged documents.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pennsylvania doctor is accused of scheduling multiple surgeries at once and billing government programs.

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Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2024

Merck cannot strike class claims in antitrust litigation over its rotavirus vaccine, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday, while also allowing the city of Baltimore to eliminate redundancies in its complaint.

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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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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

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Specifically, Great Lakes is a foreign insurance company that insured a yacht owned by Raiders, a Pennsylvania company. But, if Pennsylvania public policy justifies rejecting that choice-of-law clause, then Raiders can pursue its claim against Great Lakes under Pennsylvania law. So exactly why would that question ever matter?

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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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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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