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 federal judge in Pennsylvania putting a closely watched case involving the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and the survivors of a deceased Cozen O’Connor partner on the suspense docket. As reporter Gina Passarella writes, that effectively terminates the matter pending the outcome of other relevant cases.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Saranac Hale Spencer writes that a federal judge has imposed sanctions on lawyers for GMAC, the bank that acts as the financial-services arm of General Motors that is now called Ally Financial. The sanctions were requested by a pair of now-defunct car dealerships that had won a $4 million jury verdict in 2009 against the bank.
In more Regional News on Page 3, Gina Passarella writes that the Superior Court has denied a bus driver UIM benefits for a motor vehicle accident on the job.
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 a Business of Law column on Page 5, Frank Michael D’Amore writes about meditation and its many benefits.
In a Real Estate Law column on Page 7, Alan Nochumson writes that the city of Philadelphia overstepped its bounds in pursuit of blight.
Today’s lead story in PLW is the Superior Court setting to begin posting unpublished memorandum opinions. As reporter Zack Needles writes, the court’s technology department is working on the matter and the goal is to start posting opinions by the end of the year or before then.
Below the fold on Page 1, reporter Ben Present writes that attorneys for Jerry Sandusky’s victims were angered by the court’s decision to release the victims’ names.
On Page 3, reporter Amaris Elliott-Engel writes that a workers’ compensation attorney has challenged the 20 percent cap on attorney fees.
There’s much more inside this week’s PLW, including Samuel C. Stretton’s Ethics Forum, in which he writes about lawyers who find themselves overextended; Matthew T. Mangino’s Criminal Practice column in which he writes about reducing prison population through sentence advocacy; and Leonard Deutchman’s Cyberlaw column, in which he writes that personal devices in the workplace provide legal and technical challenges.
If you have questions or comments about any of today's stories, or our coverage as a whole, we invite you to e-mail any of the reporters directly. We hope you'll enjoy today's Legal.
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