A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence that the company had hoped to exclude from upcoming trials. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria during a hearing in a San Francisco federal court called his decision “probably most disappointing for Monsanto,” the […]

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The 2018 US Government shutdown turned out to be the longest one on record, and it should also be the last one. The US Government should not shut down. There are simply too many bad consequences suffered by Americans in all walks of life for shutdown politics to go on any longer. The ground stops at […]

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Under Pennsylvania’s Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law (“MVFRL”) automobile insurance companies are required to offer policyholders the right to purchase uninsured (“UM”) and underinsured (“UIM”) coverage to protect themselves and members of their families. UM coverage applies when an insured suffers injury or damage caused by a third-party tortfeasor who is uninsured. UIM coverage applies […]

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House Bill 2073 was introduced on January 9, 2019 and was referred to the House Energy Committee. The stated purpose of the bill is to implement recommendations that were made as a result of studies that the legislature required when it passed the Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act. Importantly, the proposed law requires the […]

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Ohio courts have struggled for the last 8 to 10 years with a tremendous amount of litigation related to its Dormant Mineral Act. The Act, in theory, allowed surface owners to reclaim previously severed oil and gas interests if the owner/holder of those severed mineral interests had not done certain things with their minerals over […]

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With the kickoff of the 2019 Legislative session underway, West Virginians will, once again, be hearing the drumbeat of calls for an intermediate appeals court – an entirely new layer of judges and courts to hear appeals from trial courts before an appeal can be heard by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (“WVSCA”). […]

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This tax season is the most exciting one in decades. We have our first chance to see the impact of the tax reform that President Trump signed into law at the end of 2017. The policy debate now gives way to the facts. Did the middle class really receive the tax cut they were promised? Or did all the […]

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In Leight v. UPMC, the Pennsylvania Superior Court declined to expand the Mental Health Procedure’s Act (“MPHA”) to cover claims concerning voluntary outpatient mental health treatment. This claim arose from a March 8, 2012 shooting incident, wherein John Shick killed one person and injured several others, including Kathryn Leight, who was working as a receptionist at […]

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Recently, in Brewington v. Walter G. Smith Elementary School, et al., the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined that the lack of padding of a gym wall may constitute negligence in the care, custody, and control of real property, and, thus, falls within the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act’s (“Act”), real estate exception. On May 9, 2012, […]

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