Photo provided courtesy of Heather Heidelbaugh. By: David McPeak As the Presidential election barrels toward the finish line, and with few statewide races in Pennsylvania, the contest for Attorney General (“AG”) is taking center stage. Local “Super Lawyer” Heather Heidelbaugh of Mt. Lebanon is running a competitive race. [1] In […]
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DEP Responds to Grand Jury’s Investigations into Fracking
Photo provided courtesy of Pixaby.com By David McPeak, Blog Editor The findings of a two-year Grand Jury investigation into criminal violations of Pennsylvania’s environmental laws by natural gas producers was recently accepted by a judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. [1] The State Wide Investigating grand […]
UPMC Will Accept Highmark Patients, Per New Contract
By: Margaret Potter, Blog Editor The contentious relationship between the two Pennsylvania healthcare giants, UPMC and Highmark, is a story well known to all Western Pennsylvanians for the past several years. In an unlikely turn of events, the two health insurance companies were able to come to common ground and enter […]
Challenging the Ban: Legal Arguments by Attorney Generals of Wash., Minn., Against Trump Executive Order
By David Zvirman, Staff Writer On February 9, 2017, the Ninth Circuit upheld the suspension of President Donald Trump’s executive order concerning the oft-called “travel ban.”[4] The actual title of this order is Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, and it was executed on […]
Remembering Janet Reno: A Back-to-Basics Politician
By Natalia Holliday, Staff Writer If you were anything like me in 2000, you spent a lot more time stuffing your mouth with Warheads until your tongue sizzled than you did paying attention to first female Attorney General Janet Reno.[1] In fact, maybe your only vague recollection of Reno is […]
Juris Magazine Summer 2016
Letter from the Editor For my final letter from the editor I decided to dig my soap box out of the closest and dust off the cob webs to impart on you, the Juris reader, my unqualified opinion on the current state of our nation which has inspired this thematic […]
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