Recorded 4-10-18 in Pittsburgh. Issues include: police traffic stops and probable cause when police stop the same vehicle a second time, underinsured motorist coverage and stacking involving motorcycles, driving under the influence intermediate punishment and whether that affects mandatory sentences, whether an data breach of employee information constitutes negligence on behalf of the hospital system, […]
PA Supreme Court Session from March 6
Recorded 3-6-18 in Philadelphia. Topics include: regulation of taxis based outside of Philadelphia that operate part time in the city, an insurance company appealing a workers’ compensation claim, co-conspirator criminal liability, whether a vehicle can be categorized as a deadly weapon in a driving under the influence case, whether a construction workplace is considered the employer for a workers’ compensation claim, and involuntary termination of parental rights.
PA Superior Court Session from Dec. 12
Recorded 12-12-17 in Philadelphia. Issues include: providing false identification to police and if a motorist understood she was under investigation during a routine traffic stop, whether counsel was ineffective during voir dire jury selection for not striking prospective jurors with police relatives, whether counsel was ineffective because it was discovered he had been convicted of […]
PA Supreme Court Session from Nov. 29
Recorded 11-29-17 in Harrisburg. Topics include: circumstantial evidence in a case where an 11-year old was convicted of murdering his pregnant stepmother, search warrant probable cause affidavit and whether a mistake in an address invalidates the warrant, Whistleblower Law and whether the award of noneconomic damages is excessive, a motion to suppress evidence that applies […]
PA Supreme Court Session from Nov. 28
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 […]