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Today’s top story is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reassigning the judge overseeing a high-profile antitrust litigation in Pittsburgh. As reporter Saranac Hale Spencer writes, it’s a rare move to reassign the judge, and the silence surrounding the move is even rarer according to legal observers around the state. U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania was removed from the case of West Penn Allegheny Health System v. UPMC and no explanation has yet been given.
Also above the fold on Page 1, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that direct testimony has begun in the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia sex-abuse case and provides details.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Gina Passarella writes that Drinker Biddle & Reath and Dilworth Paxson helped in the sale of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com.
In more Regional News on Page 3, reporter Zack Needles writes that a Philadelphia trial judge has thwarted Philadelphia-based Bochetto & Lentz’s attempt to preclude King of Prussia, Pa.-based attorney Michael G. Trachtman and his firm, Powell, Trachtman, Loga, Carrle & Lombardo, from representing the plaintiff in a commerce court suit seeking settlement proceeds.
Also on Page 3, the Third Circuit weighed in on the enforceability of class arbitration.
As always, our People in the News section is on Page 2, and the top stories from our sister publications across the country make up the Page 4 National News section.
In this week’s GC Mid-Atlantic column on Page 5, Gary L. Kaplan writes about managing costs as the health care law decision looms.
In a Commentary on Page 7, Amara S. Chaudhry writes about challenging Pennsylvania’s misguided “anti-Shariah” bill.
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