The 2022 Law Power 100
The legal eagles influencing Pennsylvania politics from local to national levels.
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The legal eagles influencing Pennsylvania politics from local to national levels.
shutterstock.com It came to light this week that after the 2020 election, Bill Barr‘s Department of Justice was looking into a Twitter account named after a politician’s fictitious cow. Or was the faux cow the other very popular parody account named after the same politician? The real story goes something like this: Weeks after the 2020 presidential election, the DOJ pursued a secret grand jury subpoena trying to strip a Twitter account that parodied Devin Nunes (R - CA) of its anonymity. Unlike some other social media, on Twitter it is within the rules and terms ...
The Pennsylvania House has passed resurrected legislation seeking to provide additional lawsuit protections for businesses facing legal claims arising out of COVID-19-related injuries and deaths. “These liability protections are targeted, narrow in scope and temporary, which Pennsylvania businesses desperately need as they struggle to overcome the economic challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on them,” said Gene Barr, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry. Supporters of House Bill 605 contend it would prevent frivolous lawsuits from clogging up an a...