HARRISBURG – A panel of judges from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a Philadelphia trial court was correct when it granted summary judgment to L.A Fitness and others, in response to a premises liability action brought against them.
HARRISBURG – A panel of judges from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a Philadelphia trial court did not abuse its discretion when it included a missing witness instruction, in a charge made to a jury deciding an injury suit involving an injured mailman who fell while making delivery.
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The Pennsylvania Superior Court has vacated the life sentence a Franklin County jury gave to a teenager convicted of second-degree murder.
The court ruled that the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas must resentence Adiel Sanchez-Frometa. Now 21, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in December 2019 for the stabbing death of a Fayetteville man three years earlier. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder and related charges but acquitted him of first-degree murder.
Sanchez-Frometa, New Jersey, appealed his sentence on the grounds that Pennsylvania law does not allow defendants who committed second-degree murder while ages 15-17 to be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a $70 million compensatory damages award given to a Tennessee plaintiff for failure to warn of side effects tied to the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, while another legal fight on the subject of punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson looms in the case.
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