Recorded 4-10-18 in Pittsburgh. Issues include: Natural gas stripper well impact fees, workers’ compensation and whether it should be reimbursed from a lawsuit settlement, interference with the custody of a child and whether that supports a charge of kidnapping by a parent, exceptions to attorney-client privilege, and eminent domain when the owners of condemned parcels of land are misidentified.
Journalists Roundtable: November 9, 2017
Statewide elections were held Tuesday to fill seven vacancies on three statewide appellate courts: one on Supreme, four on Superior and two on Commonwealth. Five Democrats and two Republicans prevailed – all of them women. Also passing was a statewide referendum to allow the General Assembly to pass a bill enabling 100 percent of the value of a homestead property to be exempt from property taxation. Those and the ramifications of other elections will be discussed. Our guests this week are: Sam Janesch, staff writer with LNP, Chris Potter, reporter with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Dave Davies, senior reporter with WHYY-FM, Philadelphia. Our host is Brian Lockman.
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unconstitutional, residential mortgage foreclosures and whether attorneys fees are recoverable if the foreclosure is withdrawn, arrest warrants and whether authorities can search […]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 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 […]
PA Supreme Court Session from March 7
Recorded 3-7-17 in Philadelphia. Topics include: temporary suspension of attorney’s license, sexual offender registration, estate trustee removal, charter school enrollment cap, warrantless seizure of vehicle, fired employee personnel file review, toxicology expert testimony corroboration regarding the blood alcohol level of a pedestrian killed in a car accident, statute of limitation for personal injury and wrongful death […]
PA Supreme Court Session 3.8.16
Recorded 3-8-17 in Philadelphia. Topics include: juvenile probation discharge, unconventional national natural gas wells drilled in a residential agricultural area, commercial and residential tax uniformity, State Police officer pension calculation, automobile search probable cause, expert testimony, autism spectrum disorder heath coverage that is administered in schools, and recusal of judges.
PA Supreme Court Session 12.6.16
Recorded 12-6-16 in Harrisburg. Topics include: attorney disbarment, death penalty, implied covenant in limited partnership agreements, hearsay evidence in preliminary hearings, commercial driver’s license lifetime disqualification, involuntary termination of parental rights, wrongful use of civil proceedings, sexual offender registration under Megan’s Law, and discharged attorney contingency fees.