The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ended the prosecution of Bill Cosby by vacating his convictions and barring a retrial. The Court held that the non-prosecution agreement between then-D.A. Bruce Castor and Cosby
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that an exculpatory release, signed by a participant in a charity bike ride and designed to immunize the City of Philadelphia, was unenforceable. The Court found
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered whether the claim that a foreign judgment was not authenticated under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (UEFJA) implicates the subject matter jurisdiction of
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a critical ruling for criminal defendants when it held “that a trial court may invoke ‘judicial delay’ to deny a defendant’s Rule 600 motion to
In Commonwealth v. Rogers, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether a criminal defendant is permitted to introduce evidence of his alleged victims’ prior prostitution convictions to bolster
In re B.W. presented the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with the issue of whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court erred in ordering the expungement and destruction of the medical records of the
Do you try criminal cases before juries? If so, read the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Wardlow. The Court held that Pa.R.A.P. 311(a)(6) affords an interlocutory appeal as
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court revisited the Recidivism Risk Reduction Act (“RRRI”), 61 Pa.C.S. §§ 4501-4512, in Commonwealth v. Finnecy. At the outset, the parties perhaps should have hired the professional
In SLT Holdings, LLC v. Mitch-Well Energy, Inc., the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reviewed the trial court’s grant of partial summary judgment in favor of Appellees in their complaint in equity
In Pittsburgh Logistics Sys., Inc. v. Beemac Trucking, LLC, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court confronted an issue of first impression: whether “no-hire” provisions in contracts are enforceable. Here, a transportation logistics
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