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HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Police and two state troopers are attempting to dismiss a lawsuit from a Chambersburg woman, who alleged she was subjected to excessive force during a DUI traffic stop arrest by five state troopers in January 2019.

On Thursday, August 4, 2022, the First Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed as moot an appeal that was brought by two former University of Massachusetts students claiming that the...

Pamela Grayson filed the suit asking for compensation in response to being attacked by officers during the 2020 Hunt Hill Bridge protest.

We have recently been fielding a number of questions from our lender clients on the application of certain investor side letter provisions on the collateral package...

“. . . The Sherrill decision was based in part on the Doctrine of Discovery, one of the rare principles of American law that came not from English common law or from the pen of some Enlightenment philosopher but rather from the Vatican.”

The dismissal comes one week after a Miami-based attorney filed the lawsuit.

PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania state trooper has denied that he illegally subjected a Chester County man to detainment, search, arrest and a blood test for DUI without probable cause.

Two recent news items got me thinking about public pensions, their continued rise in private equity and their sovereign status.

ALLENTOWN – A Bethlehem casino seeks to join Pennsylvania State Police defendants in looking to dismiss litigation filed by a New Jersey man, who alleged he was falsely accused of stealing a wallet at the casino on account of his Hispanic heritage and imprisoned for three days by both the Bethlehem Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.

Two recent news items got me thinking about public pensions, their continued rise in private equity and their sovereign status.