Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. ___ (2012) In 1997, Cory R. Maples was tried for the murder of Stacey Alan Terry, and Barry Dewayne Robinson. He was represented by two state-appointe...

Commonwealth v. Stein, 2012 Pa. Super. 26 On August 10, 2010, Officer Thomas Fahy, of the Cheltenham Township Police Department, while operating undercover, conducted a controlled b...

New Statute Prohibiting Text-Based Communications On March 8, 2012, Pennsylvania's new anti-texting legislation went into effect. 75 Pa.C.S. § 3316. I've been getting a fair num...

DNC v. RNC 09-4615 (3d Cir. 2012) Read the Full Text of the Opinion. During the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial election, the DNC, the New Jersey Democratic State Commit...

Golan v. Holder, 565 U.S. ___ (2012) In 1989 the United States became a signatory to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. This treaty requi...

Commonwealth v. Burwell, 2012 Pa. Super. 55 Read the Full-Text of the Opinion. Ronald Burwell appeals from his judgment of sentence imposed after a jury found him guilty of aggravat...

National Meat Association v. Harris, 565 U.S. ___ (2012) The Federal Meat Inspection Act ("FMIA") has specific requirements relating to the type of animals eligible for slaughter and sale...

U.S. v. Saferstein, 10-4092 (3d Cir, 2012) Read the Full-Text of the Opinion. From 1997 until 2004, Saferstein was President, Chief Executive Officer, and majority owner of GoInter...

Long v. Tommy Hilfiger, 11-1554 (3d Cir., 2012) Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, merchants who print credit card numbers on customers' receipts are required to trun...