Welcome to your Tuesday morning round-up of stories in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, which also includes this week’s edition of Pennsylvania Law Weekly. All of the links below will take you directly to today’s stories, or you can head straight over to The Legal’s homepage. (Some stories may require registration or a paid subscription.)
The top story in today’s Legal is a Berks County trial judge issuing what is believed to be the first order in Pennsylvania suppressing evidence from a Global Positioning System based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in United States v. Jones. As reporter Zack Needles writes, the high court barred evidence obtained through a mobile tracking device used to monitor a suspect’s vehicle in that case, because authorities failed to adhere to the terms of a search warrant. In the case of Commonwealth v. Burgos, Berks County Common Pleas Court Judge Paul M. Yatron reversed “with extreme reluctance” his prior order denying a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Saranac Hale Spencer writes that U.S. Steel’s failure to provide a copy of a letter sent to a special master to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission does not void the master’s recommendation, a Western District judge has ruled. The EEOC has been engaged in a lengthy dispute with the employer.
In more Regional News on Page 3, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that the state Supreme Court has rejected a new trial for a defendant on death row because a police interview that was not turned over to the defense before trial did not exculpate him.
Also on Page 3, Dan McCormick writes that noted white-collar litigator Donald J. Goldberg has died at 81.
As always, our People in the News section is on Page 2, and the top stories from our sibling publications across the country make up the Page 4 National News section.
In an Immigration Law column on Page 5, Suzanne B. Seltzer writes that a federal judge has reminded the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to play by the rules.
In a Family Law column on Page 7, Michael E. Bertin writes that the Superior Court has ruled declaratory judgment in a divorce action is unappealable.
Today’s lead story in PLW is a look at the upcoming state Supreme Court oral arguments to be held in Pittsburgh this week. As reporter Ben Present writes, the case attracting the most attention is the $18.5 million verdict being appealed by Genuardi’s in a case that involves a long list of appellate lawyer heavyweights filing amicus briefs.
Below the fold on Page 1, Ben Present writes that the state Supreme Court has denied the extraordinary jurisdiction petition of an attorney who has accused a Washington County judge of tampering with the transcripts of the underlying murder trial he defended.
On Page 3, Zack Needles writes that the state Superior Court has ruled a sheriff’s sale cannot be set aside for a late bidder.
There’s much more inside this week’s PLW, including Samuel C. Stretton’s Ethics Forum, in which he discusses privileged information in joint defenses; Matthew T. Mangino’s Criminal Practice column, in which he writes that the Supreme Court has opened the door to ineffective plea-bargaining claims; the Superior Court saying that a jury may decide an injured worker’s employment status; a religious school ruled not exempt from paying unemployment compensation benefits; and David Mandelbaum’s Environmental Law column on the high court and pre-enforcement review under the Clean Water Act.
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