/pennsylvania?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Pennsylvania Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:43:57 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365684?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365684 The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee walked out of the vote on Emil Bove's Third Circuit nomination on Thursday morning after Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., accused committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, of subverting committee rules by not acknowledging his request to speak and rushing through the nomination. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:29:49 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2348022?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2348022 Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:51:34 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365664?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365664 A Pittsburgh criminal defense attorney agreed to have his law license suspended after he was convicted and sentenced to up to seven years in state prison for soliciting sex from what he thought was a 15-year-old girl, according to an order filed Wednesday with Pennsylvania's Supreme Court. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:18:20 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365864?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365864 President Donald Trump announced on social media Wednesday that he has chosen a Catholic University of America law professor, who is currently serving in the White House Counsel's office and has clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, to serve on the Third Circuit. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:11:11 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365804?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365804 A federal judge has refused to toss a suit claiming an artificial intelligence property risk assessment company infringed patents used to evaluate properties, saying the patents cleared the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:33:30 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365704?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365704 The family of Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher whose 2011 death was ruled a suicide despite 20 stab wounds, is pressing city officials to honor a settlement in which they agreed to revisit her cause of death after a decade-long legal battle. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:55:12 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365554?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365554 A coalition of 20 states led by Washington and Massachusetts sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Boston federal court Wednesday, accusing the Trump administration of illegally cutting off billions of dollars in grants for proactive disaster mitigation projects across the country. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:57:29 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365634?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365634 LifeScan Global Corp., a company that makes blood glucose monitoring devices, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court with $1.7 billion of debt and a plan supported by its private equity backer to trim more than 75% of debt by handing the business to existing lenders. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:53:23 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365700?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365700 The former financial secretary of a Pittsburgh-area steelworkers' union on Wednesday asked a federal court to sentence him to probation and nearly $15,000 in restitution after he pled guilty to embezzling funds. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:30:44 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2363436?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2363436 The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Kousisis v. U.S. decision, holding that economic loss is not required to sustain wire fraud charges related to fraudulent inducement, may extend criminal liability to government contractors that make false diversity, equity and inclusion certifications, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:46:47 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365444?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365444 The promise of a national reach and a strong, supportive platform helped a corporate attorney with nearly 15 years of experience advising clients on a wide variety of business decisions and transactions move his practice to Clark Hill PLC's Pittsburgh office. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:54:11 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365463?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365463 A member of the family behind the popular Tony Luke's cheesesteak shop in South Philadelphia was re-sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison, marking a two-month reduction of the original term he'd received for paying employees under the table. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:46:13 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2357402?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2357402 Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:57:08 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365154?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365154 The attorney representing former NFL players when the league pledged to stop using "race-norming" when deciding payments from the concussion settlement was awarded nearly $1.4 million in attorney fees Tuesday by the Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing the settlement. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:26:27 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365190?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365190 The Third Circuit on Tuesday backed the Federal Aviation Administration's adjudicatory authority to impose civil penalties for air safety rules violations, saying in a precedential ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court's Jarkesy decision doesn't entitle a paint supplier to a jury trial in a case stemming from a leaky paint can on a FedEx plane. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:19:48 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2364887?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2364887 Steves & Sons Inc. has urged the Fourth Circuit to preserve the first court-ordered divestiture in a private merger challenge, arguing Jeld-Wen's sale of the Pennsylvania factory restored competition in the market for the door skins used to make molded interior doors. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:04:54 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365099?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365099 A $500,000 settlement reached between a Pennsylvania businessman and a cybersecurity firm suing over unpaid voting machine investigation bills does not cover a Michigan attorney and her firm, a Michigan federal judge ruled this week. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:44:20 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2365201?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2365201 Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday rebuffed the request from Democrats on his committee for the whistleblower who made claims regarding Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove to testify and said the committee will proceed with the vote on Bove's nomination Thursday. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:33:36 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2362982?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2362982 As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:14:53 +0000 /pennsylvania/articles/2359465?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pennsylvania/articles/2359465 An investigation into the mysterious death of a Philadelphia schoolteacher was recently reopened, a victory in her parents' hard-fought challenge to the city's designating the death a suicide, but experts predict an uphill battle to find and convict a killer if the probe determines the death was in fact a homicide.