Justice Kevin Dougherty led the opinions applying federal precedent to a town's restrictions on private shooting ranges, broke with his colleagues on whether they had the right case to address abortion rights, and said counties had to notify voters if their mail-in ballots are rejected:

Justice David Wecht wrote the opinions striking down Pittsburgh's 'jock tax' as unequal, joined Justice Donohue in supporting a constitutional right to abortion (part of the state's strong protection of privacy), and found that gerrymandered electoral maps violate free expression & free association:

My colleagues & I rounded up notable decisions led by each of the judges up for retention. Justice Christine Donohue took a former justice to task for hobbling the Penn State abuse case, upheld limits on how PA's natural resources can be sold, & said the state constitution protects abortion rights:

Calvin’s love waits for no deadline.

In Pennsylvania, that’s not always the case now! (We explained the code of conduct was more like a set of rules he had to follow, and if he didn’t, then the legal contract his parents had signed lets the school kick him out.)

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Lawyer + journalist parents here: When ours was asked by his teacher to sign a student code of conduct, he pointedly questioned if the students could really form a binding legal contract because they were minors.

Last but not least, @ypeterkang.bsky.social wrote about the PA Supreme Court holding that a parent signing a waiver can't bind a spouse -- or their kid -- to arbitration, a big deal for attractions like trampoline parks, laser tag, ropes courses, etc.

Law360's new criminal practice wire and @brandonous.bsky.social had the story on the Pennsylvania justices rejecting a strict test for when an area is considered "high crime" and the bar for stops and searches is lower:

A power distribution company can use its billing system to charge customers for optional extras like line insurance or smart thermostats, but Pennsylvania law requiring equal access to billing for 3rd-party power generator cos. doesn't extend to their own add-ons, the state justices ruled:

After a 2020 multi-vehicle pileup on the PA Turnpike, the defense didn't have to preemptively prove that all the witnesses in Westmoreland County were "key" to their case in order to get a court to move lawsuits there from Philadelphia for convenience, the state Supreme Court said:

Pennsylvania's Justices also affirmed the state's regulation requiring medical marijuana products go through two independent labs for safety testing, reasoning the law's emphasis on safety lets the state set a higher bar than just "one or more" tests (via @samreisman.bsky.social):

His lawsuit over Lawrence Hall is one of many I am following for Law360 - it's gone quiet for a little while though.