Justice David N. Wecht
Law & Courts |
Judges- State Circuit/County
601 Commonwealth Avenue, Harrisburg, PA 17120
Recent News About Justice David N. Wecht
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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 few weeks after throwing out the statewide school mask mandate issued by now-former Secretary of Health Alison Beam in September, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania released its rationale for doing so.
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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 found that a Pittsburgh ordinance which forbid landlords from denying rental units to tenants who use federal housing vouchers was not legal under the state’s Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and thus, was unconstitutional to business.
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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 – A Republican lawmaker has authored a resolution calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Justice David N. Wecht, alleging that the judge is guilty of “misbehavior in office.”
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Utilities that use the City of Lancaster’s rights-of-way will not have to pay an annual occupancy fee after a new ruling.
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HARRISBURG – According to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and after a four-year-long court battle, the City of Pittsburgh has the ability and authority to mandate all of its employers to provide their employees with paid sick days.
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HARRISBURG – Two members of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, including Justice Christine Donohue, dissented from the majority view in a prominent case which examined the constitutionality of the Dragonetti Act as applied to attorneys in the state.
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HARRISBURG – After a challenge to its constitutionality in reference to attorneys, a 5-2 ruling from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on April 26 has upheld the Dragonetti Act.
