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  • May 10, 2004 |

    Mormon's Effort To Teach Daughter About Polygamy Is On Docket

    During an oral argument session this week in Harrisburg, the state Supreme Court will take up the thorny issue of whether a court can curtail a parent's advocacy of certain religious belie

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  • March 8, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Justices Weigh `Deemed Election' Effect

    *awyers in a personal injury action sparred last week before the state Supreme Court over whether a "deemed election" of limited tort under Pennsylvania law extends to the children o

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  • August 21, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Show and Tell

    Our grade school teachers taught us long ago the value of "show and tell" as a learning exercise. Lawyers should know how to use "show and tell" to educate tribunals as to the real value of c

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  • May 26, 2003 |

    Leeway For Name Change Denial Is Narrowed

    A trial court should have granted a woman's petition to change her last name to that of her lifelong companion, the Superior Court has ruled.Although the court did not say whet

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  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. McBurrows

    Publication Date: 2001-06-05
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    Date Filed: 2001-05-31
    Court: Pa. Super. Ct.
    Judge: Orie Melvin, J.
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    Case Number: 2207 EDA 1999

    �1 In this prosecution for murder in the first degree, the Commonwealth has appealed from the Order which granted in part the defense's omnibus pre-trial motion to suppress the testimony of the Appell

  • Commonwealth v. Barfield

    Publication Date: 2001-02-05
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    Date Filed: 2001-02-01
    Court: Pa. Super. Ct.
    Judge: Orie Melvin, J.
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    Case Number: 730 MDA 2000

    J. S49020/00� 1 The Commonwealth appeals from the trial court's Order granting Appellee's, Antonia Barfield's, motion for judgment of acquittal on two counts of kidnapping. For the following reason

  • Progressive Casualty Insurance Company v. Hoover

    Publication Date: 2001-02-14
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    Date Filed: 2001-02-14
    Court: Pa. Super. Ct.
    Judge: Orie Melvin, J.
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    Case Number: 1877 WDA 1999

    � 1 Progressive Casualty Insurance Company (Progressive) appeals from the November 12, 1999 Order granting summary declaratory judgment to Blanche and James Hoover (Hoovers) finding Progressive is obl