Suspended without pay from her job as a secretary in the Delaware County, Penn., district attorney’s office in Chester, Vera Ellen Carroll doesn’t appear likely to be returning to work…
Ralph E. Mirarchi, a Pennsylvania lawyer who pled guilty to stealing more than $4 million from clients, is up for early prison release as a non-violent offender.
Saying that middle schoolers have a constitutional right to express their views about breast cancer and attempt to reduce the “stigma” associated with discussing breast health, a federal judge in…
Arguing that the state of Pennsylvania should either pay private defense attorneys adequately for taking on court-appointed capital cases or abolish the death penalty, a group of lawyers has filed…
A defamation suit filed by a fired Philadelphia news anchor against her former network and co-anchor is focusing on whether the two had a steamy relationship, as he claims, or,…
It might sound a bit like an April Fool’s Day joke. But in fact a sport-utility vehicle did smash into the side of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law…
Despite multiple complaints about issues ranging from the death of patients to an apparent lack of malpractice insurance at one point, a physician charged with eight murders concerning the Philadelphia…
A court hearing today in a high-profile case involving murder charges against multiple workers at a Philadelphia abortion clinic was supposed to be about the amount of bail set for…
A panel of faculty has recommended that Widener University School of Law not dismiss an associate professor who allegedly used a hypothetical in a criminal class that involved the dean’s…
A Christian-based group of lawyers filed a federal discrimination lawsuit in Scranton on Friday after a fifth-grade girl’s request to distribute fliers for her church Christmas party was denied by…
Convicted by a federal jury in Scranton of 12 of the 39 counts that he faced in a bribery case, a former president judge of Luzerne County is now trying…
A Pennsylvania judge today declared a mistrial in the case of a state lawmaker and ex-prosecutor accused of conspiring with a sister to illegally use her staff to help another…
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