S.B. v. SS.
S.B. v. SS. involved a contentious custody dispute. After a twenty-three day trial, Father was awarded custody of Child. A few weeks before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied allocatur, Mother’s
December 22, 2020
S.B. v. SS. involved a contentious custody dispute. After a twenty-three day trial, Father was awarded custody of Child. A few weeks before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied allocatur, Mother’s
In Leight v. Univ. of Pittsburgh Physicians, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt with third-party liability under the Mental Health Procedure Act, 50 P.S. § 7101et seq., in the context of
In Graham v. Check, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did its best to settle the question of what evidence must be presented at trial to merit a “sudden emergency” jury instruction.
In the case of In re Conflict of Interest of the Office of the Philadelphia Dist. Att’y, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered a Special Master to unseal the record in
In February 2013, the plaintiffs purchased a snow tubing season pass from the defendant mountain resort. The reverse side of the season pass contained a release agreement, which provided that
In Hon. Mike Kelly v. PA, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted the application for extraordinary jurisdiction filed by the Commonwealth, vacated the Commonwealth Court’s order preliminarily enjoining the Commonwealth from
In re Canvassing of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots of Nov. 3, 2020 Gen. Election involved consolidated appeals by the Trump campaign. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the PA Election
In Mader v. Duquesne Light Co., the Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered the limits on a trial court’s discretion to order a new trial on all damages where a jury’s award
In McMichael v. McMichael, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave quality primers on the difference between a survival action and a wrongful death action as well as the difference between economic
In Commonwealth v. Knight, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reviewed the defendant’s death sentence. The Court ruled that most of the defendant’s claims were waived. In addressing his claim that PA’s
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