Lattaker v. Magee Women’s Hospital of UPMC, No. GD-13-021120 (C.P. Allegheny July 5, 2016) Wettick, J.  This is another Judge Wettick opinion in which he steps back on his controversial opinion in McLane v. Valley Medical Facilities, Inc., 157 P.L.J. 252 (C.P. Allegheny Cnty. 2009).  In this opinion, Judge Wettick says that nothing in the […]

Davis v. Byron Wright, 2017 Pa. Super. LEXIS 130; 2017 PA Super. 48 (February 27, 2017) Stevens, P.J.E. The lower court properly ruled as a matter of law that there was no waiver of the protection of the Dead Man’s Statute.  Therefore, surviving adverse parties were not competent to testify at trial regarding the circumstances […]

The Procedure for Precomplaint Discovery and Protective Orders Tullytown Borough v. Armstrong, 129 A.3d 619 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2015).  Tullytown Borough appealed from an order of the Court of Common Pleas denying the Borough’s motion for protective order.  The Commonwealth Court affirmed.  The plaintiffs filed a writ of summons commencing a civil rights action under § […]