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On Behalf of Newman Williams, P.C. | Jul 23, 2018 | Firm News, Jerry Geiger, Pennsylvania Legal News, School Law
Right to Know Law Ruling The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled on July 20, 2018 that the Right-to-Know Law (RTKL) required disclosure of a school bus surveillance video, which showed a teacher roughly disciplining a student on a bus. The Court rejected the...
On Behalf of Newman, Williams, Mishkin, Corveleyn, Wolfe & Fareri, P.C. | Jan 13, 2018 | Firm News, Jerry Geiger, School Law, Taxes
I gave a report at the last Pleasant Valley School District meeting on Thursday about how the new tax law changed 529 plans and could affect Pennsylvania School Districts. How this will play out is not yet known but it is something to watch. When Congress passed the...
On Behalf of Newman, Williams, Mishkin, Corveleyn, Wolfe & Fareri, P.C. | Oct 12, 2017 | Firm News, Jerry Geiger, School Law, Supreme Court, Taxes
Judicial Review of a Broken Funding Scheme On September 28, 2017, in William Penn School District v. Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided it had the authority and duty to decide whether Pennsylvania’s school funding scheme is so broken it violates the...
On Behalf of Newman Williams, P.C. | Oct 6, 2017 | Civil Rights Law, Federal Court, Firm News, Jerry Geiger, School Law
Federal Court in Wilkes-Barre Stops School from Disciplining Cheerleader for Off-campus Speech Yesterday, federal District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the Mahanoy School District from punishing one of its cheerleaders for...
On Behalf of Newman Williams, P.C. | Aug 13, 2017 | Federal Court, Firm News, Jerry Geiger, Personal Injury Law, School Law
A 15-year-old Connecticut student at a private boarding school in Connecticut (The Hotchkiss School) sued her school in federal court after she contracted tick-borne encephalitis on an educational trip to China the school organized. A jury awarded her $41.75 million....
On Behalf of Newman, Williams, Mishkin, Corveleyn, Wolfe & Fareri, P.C. | Jul 31, 2017 | Firm News, Jerry Geiger, Personal Injury Law, School Law
I just wrote a post on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s recent decision to re-visit when schools and municipalities may be held liable for dangerous conditions on their properties. Brewington The case I wrote about was Brewington v. City of Philadelphia, 149...
On Behalf of Newman, Williams, Mishkin, Corveleyn, Wolfe & Fareri, P.C. | Jul 31, 2017 | Firm News, Jerry Geiger, Personal Injury Law, School Law
I just wrote a post on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s recent decision to re-visit when schools and municipalities may be held liable for dangerous conditions on their properties. Brewington The case I wrote about was Brewington v. City of Philadelphia, 149...
On Behalf of Newman, Williams, Mishkin, Corveleyn, Wolfe & Fareri, P.C. | Jul 28, 2017 | Civil law, Firm News, Jerry Geiger, Personal Injury Law, School Law
Suing School Districts and other Pennsylvania municipal bodies has traditionally been very difficult because of an immunity statute called the “Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act.” It’s a long name for a Pennsylvania law that says that government agencies are...
On Behalf of Newman, Williams, Mishkin, Corveleyn, Wolfe & Fareri, P.C. | Jul 5, 2017 | Firm News, Jerry Geiger, School Law, Taxes
The Dilemma of Non-Uniform Tax Assessments The only thing certain for Pennsylvanians, at least in 2017, is death and real estate taxes. This adaptation of a famous quote was attributed to one of our greatest Pennsylvania residents, Benjamin Franklin. Amid efforts to...
On Behalf of Newman Williams, P.C. | May 27, 2017 | Civil Rights Law, Firm News, Jerry Geiger, School Law
School police did not violate 4th Amendment by Searching Student’s Bag The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously held on May 11, 2017 that a warrantless school search of a high school student’s unattended book bag was not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment....
