Like formally married couples, spouses by common law often hire divorce attorneys, especially if a court is needed to decide ...

Republican Timothy Grendell, a sitting judge and a former state lawmaker, should be suspended from practicing law and serving ...

The justices considered a routine case on unemployment benefits in characteristic style, peppering the lawyers with questions ...

Judge Kathryn Michael is running unopposed to keep her seat on the bench. Two other current judges face challengers in their ...

Properly applied as a conflict-of-laws provision, the Supremacy Clause would lead a common law court to acknowledge that a conflict does not always occur simply because two sovereigns have ...

"No other case in history of the Court of Judicial Discipline has involved such defiance post decision," the court ruled.

Most business contracts are defined by common law -- a tradition-based but constantly evolving set of laws that derive primarily from past court decisions. Which state’s common law prevails can be ...

Dwyer v. Ameriprise Financial, No. 2 WAP 2023 (Pa. April 25, 2024) (Op. by Wecht, J.) (Brobson, J., Concurring and Dissenting ...

Is marrying someone without purchasing a marriage license or having a ceremony in Pennsylvania legal? A “common-law” or ...

Despite recent departures, the city government has rightly expressed its determination to stand by a key feature of city’s ...

The Supreme Court is back at work this week, and among the more important arguments the justices are set to hear is a lawsuit ...

More than 90% of the firearms found at crime scenes in Mexico between 2018 and 2022 originated in the United States.