In a unanimous, precedential opinion issued yesterday, a three-Judge Panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a District Court holding, which had enjoined enforcement of that part of…

Reger Rizzo & Darnall Client Alert (March 19, 2020). Many of our schools, both private and public, are closed or are in the process of closing at this time due to the…

The discovery order would prescribe the “practice and procedure” to be utilized, “which may be in whole or part the practice and procedure of the foreign country or the international tribunal.” In…

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted allocatur in In re Passarelli Trust, a case in which the Superior Court en banc had reversed a ruling of the Chester County Orphans Court. The case…

On July 31, 2019, Delaware Governor John C. Carney, Jr. signed House Bill 174 (HB 174) into law. The law, titled the Delaware Insurance Data Security Act (the Act), is based on…

Litigation costs of even a successful defense of a Fair Labor Standards Act case can be tens of thousands of dollars. Damages in an unsuccessful case include the wages found to be…

Author, The Philadelphia Estate Planning Council newsletter (Fall 2019).

Recognition of same-sex marriage nationwide in the historic 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584, 192 L. Ed. 2d 609 (2015) was a huge step forward for the…

In-house counsel whose clients employ external consultants—and in particular PR firms—should take a close look at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s June 18 decision in Bousamra v. Excela Health (2019 Pa. LEXIS 3277).  The Court…

Earlier today, Senator Elizabeth Warren reintroduced the Refund Equality Act. This bill would enable same-sex couples who were legally married, but barred from filing federal tax returns as a married couple, to amend…