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Author: Rieders Travis

PRISONER LAW-EXHUASTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES-TIMELY FILING

Webb v. DOJ, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 24519 (September 27, 2024)(Freeman, J.) FREEMAN, Circuit Judge. William Webb, an inmate at Delaware’s James T. Vaughn Correctional Center (JTVCC), sued prison officials for failing to schedule court-ordered visits with his daughter. The District Court screened and dismissed the suit, holding that Webb did not exhaust JTVCC’s internal […]

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-8TH AMENDMENT-CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT-AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT-MENTAL ILLNESS

Williams v. Secretary Pa. DOC, U.S. App. LEXIS 2414, (U.S. Ct. of App., 3d Cir., September 20, 2024)(McKee, J.) McKEE, Circuit Judge. Roy Lee Williams, a death-row prisoner with a history of mental illness, was held in solitary confinement on the Capital Case Unit (CCU) of a Pennsylvania state correctional institution for twenty-six years. Williams […]

MEDICAL DEVICES-PACEMAKER-STRICT LIABILITY

Plaintiff Richard M. Ford (“Mr. Ford”) and Sandy S. Ford (“Mrs. Ford”) (collectively, “the Fords” or “Plaintiffs”) initiated this action by filing a complaint in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas against Defendants St. Jude Medical, LLC and St. Jude Medical S.C., Inc., (collectively, “Defendants”). On October 18, 2021, Defendants removed this case to […]

INSURANCE-FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW-UNDER INSURANCE-STACKING-RENEWAL OF A POLICY VERSUS A NEW POLICY

McGuire v. Nationwide, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 163290 (U.S. Dist. Ct. for W. Dist. of Pa., September 11, 2024) (Ranjan, J.) J. Nicholas Ranjan, United States District Judge Pennsylvania law allows policyholders to “stack” the number of limits of uninsured (UM) or underinsured (UIM) motorist coverage in an automobile insurance policy based on the number […]