Tag: #CivilProcedure

Mallet and Co. v. Lacayo

Have you ever wondered why the prepackaged baked goods at grocery stores always look so perfect, but when you make the pastry at home, you’re always scraping half of the

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Kimble v. Laser Spine Inst., LLC

Were the defendants using chicanery or proper civil procedure to avoid a $10 million verdict? A patient died hours after surgery from the anesthesia at the Laser Spine Institute. The

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Talley v. Wetzel

In an opinion full of allusions to baseball, the Third Circuit worked to clarify what constitutes a strike under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. That statute grants prisoners the right to

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In re Emery

The Pennsylvania Superior Court clarified the application 42 Pa.C.S. § 5505, which limits the time in which a trial court may modify or rescind its order to 30 days. Here,

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