Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives introduced House Bill 1886, legislation amending Act 164 of 1970, which relates to Indemnification Agreements in certain contracts.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

million in attorney fees and costs to a $34,224 judgment in a contract dispute between a father and son over ownership of a manufacturing company, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Friday. A suburban Philadelphia court clerk exceeded their legal authority when adding more than $1.37

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Law 360

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A Pennsylvania debt collection company accused of trying to bribe Illinois officials for contracts will not face prosecution if it meets certain conditions over two years, federal officials announced Tuesday while also saying the company's ex-CEO pled guilty in a separate deal.

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Law 360

AUGUST 29, 2022

A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed a lawsuit claiming Rite Aid misused a design firm's font for a new logo, but has left alive claims of unjust enrichment and breach of contract against the pharmacy chain.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The question presented was whether, under federal admiralty law, a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract can be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the “strong public policy” of the U.S. It held that choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are presumptively enforceable as a matter of federal maritime law.

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Law 360

JUNE 26, 2023

A jailed former bottling executive's second chance at filing a breach of contract claim against his defense attorneys was his last after a Pennsylvania federal judge threw out the complaint for failing to state a claim.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The nurses were working for the jail’s contracted medical provider, Pennsylvania-based PrimeCare Medical, Inc. Because of the unsanitary conditions in the cell, the baby developed a type of staph bacteria infection that is resistant to many antibiotics.

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Law 360

APRIL 4, 2023

A New Jersey and Pennsylvania bistate commission handling a Delaware River bridge project went beyond its powers when it mandated that contractors make project labor agreements with specific unions in order to bid on the construction contract, a Garden State appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Western District of Pennsylvania recently granted an insurer's motion to dismiss claims asserted against an insurance adjuster after finding that the insured could not maintain breach of contract or bad faith claims against the insurance adjuster.

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Law 360

JULY 29, 2021

A group of consumers is suing Dick's Sporting Goods, Best Buy and other major retailers in a Pennsylvania federal court for contracting with a consumer reporting agency they claim invaded their privacy and violated state and federal laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Mallory sued the railroad in a state court in Pennsylvania, seeking to hold the company liable for his exposure to asbestos and other toxic chemicals that he says caused his cancer. The state court rejected Mallory’s contention that the company had agreed to be sued in Pennsylvania when it registered to do business in the state.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2021

States including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania have introduced legislation to review and reassess their contracts with Dominion. Dominion alleges that as a result of Giuliani’s defamatory claims, Dominion employees were subject to threats and harassment.

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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports just 22 percent of Pennsylvania Department of Corrections guards were vaccinated as of mid-June, according to voluntary department reports. But over 75 percent of the people incarcerated in Pennsylvania’s 24 state prisons have received their shots.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 30, 2021

However, in a chilling turn of events, the university has now refused to renew his contract. There were also such an incident at the University of London involving Bahar Mustafa as well as one involving a University of Pennsylvania professor. even anonymously.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 1, 2023

The individuals allege they weren’t paid for all hours worked, including overtime, and that the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Pennsylvania Wage Act, and was also guilty of unjust enrichment and contract breach.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Although he currently lives in Virginia, he sued Norfolk Southern (a company then incorporated and based in Virginia) in state court in Pennsylvania, asserting claims under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA). The five Justices agreed that the Supreme Court has never overruled Pennsylvania Fire and that it thus controls this case.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2021

Rockefeller Technology Investments (Asia) in the California courts, considering contract terms, arbitration and litigation strategy, arbitral award and judgment recognition, and the application of the Hague Service Convention. Pennsylvania lawyers may receive CLE substantive credits for up to 7 hours. EDT each day.

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LegalReader

APRIL 2, 2021

Activists allege that Berks County's commissioners have refused to inform of the public of their plans to use the facility as part of a mysterious federal contract.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

The court noted that the case turned on the basic contracts principle that “if someone ‘renders performance under the contract, but the contract is then excused because of a ‘change of circumstances,’ he still “has a claim in restitution … as necessary to prevent unjust enrichment.”

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Prisoners are more than five times more likely to contract the virus and three times more likely to die from it than people outside, some of whom are subject to vaccine mandates, but only corrections officers are required to be vaccinated as a condition of their jobs, writes Chandra Bozelko in a column for BizNews Post.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Pennsylvania Bar Association Formal Opinion 2020-300 (April 10, 2020). Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, Joint Formal Opinion 2021-100 (March 2, 2021). Issues addressed: Working remotely. Issues addressed: Withdrawing from representation due to fear of COVID-19. 2, 2020). Working out of state.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 29, 2021

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sided with Le Tote, holding that it “appropriately pled a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets under both the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and its Pennsylvania state law analogue,” despite Urban’s argument that the 9-year-old fashion rental company failed to make its case. .

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The proposal is a broad one, proposing to prohibit any agreement that has the same effect as a noncompete agreement, including broad nondisclosure agreements that would preclude a worker from working in their field at a new company, or contract clauses that require an employee to repay a company for training costs if the employee leaves the company.

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Chugh LLP

AUGUST 19, 2021

This legal binding contract lays out the ownership of their assets in case the marriage fails or otherwise ends. However, if your separation agreement is not merged into a court order, then it is likely only enforceable by contract remedies. Pennsylvania. Marital settlement agreements, filed before a divorce complaint.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Great Lakes went to federal court in Pennsylvania, seeking a ruling that the insurance policy was invalid. But the district court dismissed the three counterclaims that were based on Pennsylvania law. And when that principle is applied, it contends, the choice-of-law provision in its contract with Raiders Retreat is enforceable.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

DOJ has used the False Claims Act to recover more than $70 billion since 1986, much of it driven by whistleblower lawsuits and largely focused on health care and defense contracting. A federal district court in Pennsylvania granted the government’s request and dismissed the case, and the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

April 3 is also the deadline by which radio and television stations licensed to communities in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas with employment units of five or more full-time employees must upload Annual EEO Public File Reports to station online public inspection files.

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

” And before that, Olaplex filed suit and then landed a $66 million win in the trade secret suit that it filed against L’Oreal in January 2017, in which the haircare startup accused the beauty titan of pilfering confidential information about its products during potential M&A discussions for a deal that never came to be.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2021

According to one report cited by Vera, Pennsylvania authorities in 2019 required mail sent to prisoners, including greeting cards, to be routed through a processing plant in Florida where it was photocopied and then sent back to inmates. Impact of Private Firms.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Concepcion , the Supreme Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to “place arbitration agreements on an equal footing with other contracts.” In Concepcion , the claim was that California state law treated arbitration contracts less favorably than other contracts. Pennsylvania , 20-7805. 5 conference).

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

It marks a major victory for states that seek to innovate or tinker with their election laws — to expand them or to contract them. States will have ample freedom to innovate, to expand opportunities to vote, and, if they see fit, to contract them. Pennsylvania , letting state election officials’ decisions stand.

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Fordham Law News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

10] In addition, crypto enables decentralized finance (DeFi), an “open, permissionless, and highly interoperable protocol stack built on public smart contract platforms, such as the Ethereum blockchain.” [11] The SEC has consistently maintained that ICOs are investment contracts, and thus securities, because they pass the Howey test. [16]

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

LLC involves how to determine the law to be applied under federal admiralty law in a maritime contract case. Raiders, a Pennsylvania-based company, insured a yacht with Great Lakes. The insurer then filed an action for declaratory judgment in federal district court in Pennsylvania to determine whether the policy was indeed void.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Throughout the course, the special nature of cross-border employment was acknowledged and the participants were acquainted with the concepts of triangular contracts, weaker-party protection, International Labour Organisation, the ‘decent work’ objective, etc.

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The Fashion Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In the Bragg case, a contract matter in which the plaintiff accused Linden of unlawfully confiscating the virtual property that he acquired on the platform (using “real world” dollars), Judge Eduardo Robreno of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Neil Matkin and other college officials refused to renew her contract due to her controversial tweet. The college has also cited other grounds for not renewing the contract, including “insubordination” and making private personnel issues public that impair the college’s operations.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A groundbreaking study by the Rand Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes this point. Any intrusion beyond what is necessary is inherently illegitimate. This version of well-supported defense function made the prosecutors better prosecutors. Heaton was a co-author of the Rand/Penn study.).

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