Recorded 11-28-17 in Harrisburg. Topics include: an executive order signed by Gov. Tom Wolf allowing state home care workers to unionize, general consent to search a vehicle stopped by police and whether that consent extends to a drug-sniffing canine called in to conduct a further search, high income child support guidelines, song lyrics that threaten […]
PA Supreme Court Session from Oct. 18
Recorded 10-18-17 in Pittsburgh. Topics include: heart & lung workers’ compensation, sale of unused school property, unconventional natural gas well preliminary injunction, and health care provider disease reporting involving a fired health care employee with hepatitis who gets a job in another state and infects patients and whether there is a duty to report criminal behavior.
PA Supreme Court Session from Oct. 17
Recorded 10-17-17 in Pittsburgh. Topics include: the sovereign immunity real estate exception for state government and liability involving a PennDOT guardrail, trial court jury instructions and charge conferences with judges, contingency fees and how law firms should share a settlement when an attorney leaves one firm and the case moves to another law firm, workers’ compensation and recovery of attorney fees, and a media request for information about the 2014 Allegheny County Investigating Grand Jury and whether that information is covered by the open records law, specifically, if the request is moot after information about the grand jury is found on the Internet.
PA Superior Court Session from Sept. 13
Recorded 9-13-17 in Pittsburgh. Topics include: Sale of estate properties to an heir, attorney-client privilege and can it be waived at trial when it was asserted during pre-trial proceedings, wiretaps and the length and scope of intercept authorization orders and extensions, Post-Conviction Relief Act jurisdiction, and expert testimony and a physician’s qualifications to testify.
PA Supreme Court Session from Sept. 12
Recorded 9-12-17 in Philadelphia. Topics include: autopsy reports and whether expert testimony given by video is testimonial hearsay violating the constitutional guarantee of confrontation, firefighter cancer diagnosis and workers’ compensation eligibility, double jeopardy when there has been prosecutorial misconduct, attorney compensation to non-attorneys, and warrantless searches of cell phones.
PA Supreme Court Session from Sept. 13
Recorded 9-13-17 in Philadelphia. Topics include: vehicle liability exception to local governmental immunity, failure of a sexual offender to register an address change when a retroactive provision of Megan’s Law 3 was deemed unconstitutional, residential mortgage foreclosures and whether attorneys fees are recoverable if the foreclosure is withdrawn, arrest warrants and whether authorities can search […]
PA Supreme Court Session from June 7
Recorded 6-7-17 in Harrisburg. Topics include: Zoning ordinances and whether the application to construct 11 duplexes was properly denied, three Right-to-Know Law cases: whether contributors to a city’s legal defense fund are public records, whether unredacted appendices to a report on the Attorney General’s emails on state computers are public records and whether rates paid […]
PA Supreme Court Session from May 10
Recorded 5-10-17 in Philadelphia. Topics include: credit for pre-sentence confinement relating to state and federal prison time, vehicular homicide penalty, license to carry firearms confidentiality, auto insurance contractor arbitration, trial date delay justification, and surviving spouse estate share when a marriage occurs after a will is executed.
PA Supreme Court Session from May 9
Recorded 5-9-17 in Philadelphia. Topics include: corporate tax filing deadline, governor’s line item veto power in a Fiscal Code bill, attorney presence during medical exam relating to the discovery process, civil asset forfeiture, judicial discipline sanctions, and mandatory minimum sentences for and their application to prior offenses and current offenses.
PA Supreme Court Session from April 4
Recorded 4-4-17 in Pittsburgh. Topics include: the discipline of a judge, Right-to-Know Law and whether personal information of government employees is protected, health care provider performance evaluations and if peer review information is discoverable, whether a trustee of an estate who purchased land from the estate properly filed the deed, and health insurance denial bad […]