Attorney Jerry Geiger is an avid motorcycle enthusiast and a rider. For over 30 years, he has been a trial attorney who has tried cases throughout eastern Pennsylvania. Jerry understands the physics and dynamics of riding a...
Since 1985, plaintiffs’ win rates in federal district court litigation have plummeted by more than 50%. UConn Law Professors Alexandra D. Lahav and Peter Siegelman describe the statistic as a mystery. They offer a few possibilities about this unusual statistic but no...
Supreme Court Justices love to travel and who could blame them. Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose retirement announcement was widely predicted but never came, will be teaching in Salzburg, Austria from July 2 through July 21, 2017, where he teaches a summer program for...
Is EZ-Pass really so easy? You’ve seen the infomercials. Buy “mighty putty,” the “GLH Hair System” or the “thigh master” for just 15 or more “easy” payments of $9.99. It is so easy separating the consumer from his money. Toll booth authorities, no doubt taking a cue...
Plans were announced some time ago to widen Route 80 through Stroudsburg and north to the Route 380 split. If you live in the Poconos, visit here during holidays, or suffer in traffic when the inevitable truck accident occurs, you understand the need for an upgrade....
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that only a physician, not a member of his staff, must obtain “informed consent” from a patient before performing medical procedures. Brain Surgery In Shinal v. Toms, Dr. Steven Toms, the chief of...
$3.1 million verdict for motorcyclist. A Philadelphia jury just awarded the estate of a motorcycle rider $3.1 million in a case involving the admissibility of a GoPro video recording. The death of the cyclist is tragic. However, the result...
A Monroe County, Pennsylvania Court recently ruled that a property owners’ association was not legally responsible for a traffic accident caused by a missing stop sign on the association’s road. In Brown v. Emerald Lakes Association, Deanne Brown was driving on...
There is a growing consensus among federal appeals courts that law enforcement can request tracking data from a user’s cellphone without a warrant and without violating the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The Supreme Court just...
The press is reporting today that President Trump nominated Stephanos Bibas for a Third Circuit judgeship. Bibas is reported to be a law professor at Penn and a former clerk of Justice Anthony Kennedy. If this sounds familiar, the most recent...
