On August 4, 2016, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a civil rights claim seeking multi millions of dollars against a local municipality and its elected officials. Tucker Industries filed suit against the Borough of East Berlin and its elected officials claiming that its […]
Demystifying the Executive Session in the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act
The Pennsylvania Sunshine Act is extremely narrow in its definition of an executive session. All too often, elected officials and their legal counsel label closed meetings “executive sessions” despite the narrow definition. Executive sessions can be broadly defined as meetings in which a prearranged quorum of elected officials may meet privately to discuss governmental business. […]
“Gee, I Helped This Guy Today”
An oral history of five Pennsylvania attorneys who graduated from law school in the 1950 Published in 2016 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers — June 2016 by Steve Knopper Link to Original Article Back then, few people took the LSAT, and Pennsylvania law students needed established “preceptors” to shepherd them through their degrees and early careers. Only a […]