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Justice Debra Todd is the first woman to serve as Chief Justice in the state’s history.

HARRISBURG – In a ruling it admitted may seem “harsh," the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that the father of a man who died from a fentanyl overdose cannot sue the pharmacy which provided him the drug, since the decedent committed a crime by possessing and using it.

HARRISBURG – According to a unanimous Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruling, concert tickets which were given to players at Bensalem casino as a perk in 2014 are ineligible from being taxed as a portion of the casino’s operating revenue, which concurred with an earlier ruling from the state’s Commonwealth Court.

HARRISBURG – A 6-1 majority of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that Manheim Township School District officials acted outside the scope of their authority, when they expelled a 17 year-old high school student for an after-hours Snapchat meme which labeled a fellow classmate as a possible school shooter.

Baer | PA Courts HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the Commonwealth cannot dodge liability through the real estate exception to sovereign immunity, in cases where its negligent design and construction created a defective and dangerous condition, and later caused injury. The Court unanimously agreed in an April 28 Wise v. Huntingdon County Housing Development Et.Al that dimly-lit areas of properties owned by the Commonwealth are an exception to sovereign immunity from litigation, and that they are in fact “dangerous property conditio...