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On November 18, 2009, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an Order in the case of Williams v. GEICO, 2009 WL 3850443, 147 WAL 2009 (Pa. 2009) agreeing to address the following issue:
"Whether, under the MVFRL and our decision in Burstein v....
I recently learned that Google has created Google Scholar, a new search engine designed to seek out scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including books, theses, abstracts, articles. Now, as of November 17, 2009, Google Scholar...
In Orders handed down yesterday, Senior Federal Middle District Judge A. Richard Caputo ruled that former Luzerne County Judges Mark A. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan were entitled to immunity from civil suits for matters related to actions they...
I was made aware of another post-Koken case in favor of severance at yesterday's PBI Auto Law Seminar in Scranton, PA. I thank Attorney John Lenahan for bringing this case to my attention and for providing me with a copy of the opinion.
Before Judge...
