Justice Christine Donohue
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Judges- State Circuit/County
601 Commonwealth Avenue, Harrisburg, PA 17120
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HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act’s two-year statute of limitations for survival and wrongful death litigation against health care companies is now tougher to circumvent.
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HARRISBURG – A 5-2 majority of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed a state’s law permitting mail-in voting, reversing a contrary finding reached in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in January.
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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.
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HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has unanimously decided that a trial witness may be accompanied by a “comfort dog” on the stand, if that action both leads to truthful testimony and minimizes harm to a defendant.
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HARRISBURG – In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has handed down a ruling which may ease plaintiffs’ recovery of damages against the owners of related corporations, and simultaneously, make it more difficult for those same businesses to protect their assets in future litigation.
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HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that sexual abuse claims brought by an Altoona woman against her local Catholic Church diocese will remain time-barred, despite the issuance of a grand jury report in 2016 which confirmed a series of other abuse allegations levied against her assailant.
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HARRISBURG – In a 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has concurred with a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation appeal looking to reverse a decision from the Commonwealth Court – which had found an unmined coal estate adjacent to highway construction was illegally seized by state transport authorities through eminent domain.
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HARRISBURG – Minors have more time to adhere to the particulars of state law when making claims for discrimination, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
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HARRISBURG – In a major victory for state Democrat officials, a 4-3 decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has given the Pennsylvania Democratic Party its requested three-day extension to count mail-in ballots and approved the use of drop-box locations apart from official polling places.
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HARRISBURG – Once-unemployed individuals who found work as drivers for ride-share service Uber may now be eligible for unemployment compensation, a majority complement of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled on July 24.
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HARRISBURG – The state Supreme Court has reversed a Commonwealth Court decision concerning a Berks County police officer who had been terminated for accessing and storing pornographic photos on the job, remanding the case to the lower court with instructions to reinstate an arbitrator’s award.
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HARRISBURG – Citing its King’s Bench jurisdiction, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently threw out an extraordinary relief petition that looked to nullify Gov. Tom Wolf’s executive order that shut down “non-life sustaining” businesses from operating during quarantine from the coronavirus.
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HARRISBURG – On Nov. 20, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Western District determined that employers cannot use a fluctuating work week (FWW) method to calculate overtime for nonexempt, salaried employees.
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The city had sought to prevent Joshua Prince from receiving the un-redacted document, which listed donor names, dates, and amounts.
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HARRISBURG – According to a pair of majority rulings from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a factual analysis must be undertaken in each individual case involving Johnson & Johnson anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, before a jury can decide when the statute of limitations begins to toll for bringing a claim.
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HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined on Sept. 26 that a local hospital won't get a new trial despite claiming that a portion of a $2.4 million award for former patients could be time-barred.
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HARRISBURG - On Oct. 17, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a lower court erred when it granted summary judgment to a number of health care providers sued for medical malpractice.
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HARRISBURG – The state Supreme Court has unanimously agreed to a request from the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to disbar former Washington County Common Pleas Judge Paul Michael Pozonsky.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a trial court’s decision to permit evidence demonstrating the intoxication of a pedestrian who died after being struck by a vehicle.
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HARRISBURG – A recent landmark ruling from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decreed the state government is not permitted to use money from the Oil and Gas Lease Fund towards purposes not related to environmental conservation.
