Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Michael Wiseman of Wiseman & Schwartz to discuss Commonwealth v. Bradley, holding that petitioners pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act may assert claims of ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel at the earliest available opportunity, including on direct appeal.   Show Notes: Justice Todd's Majority Opinion Justice Dougherty's Concurring Opinion Justice Wecht's Concurring Opinion Justice Mundy's Dissenting Opinion Shinn v. Ramirez summary Martinez v. Ryan Opinion Analysis Read more about Bradley and all of SCOPA ..read more

In this Season 1 finale episode, fellow appellate attorney and former judicial clerk Jill Lipman Beck of Blank Rome joins host Corrie Woods to discuss the most impactful Supreme Court of Pennsylvania cases and issues of 2021.    You can help us Raise the Bar for Pennsylvania Appeals by following Woods Law Offices on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Pete Winebrake of Winebrake & Santillo to discuss In Re: Amazon.com, Inc., Fulfillment Center Fair Labor Standards Act and Wage and Hour Litigation (In Re: Amazon) in which SCOPA held that an employee's time spent on an employer's premises awaiting mandatory security screening constitutes time "worked" for purposes of Pennsylvania's Minimum Wage Act, and that the maxim de minimum non curat lex, or, the law does not care for trivialities, does not apply to time worked for purposes of that Act.   Show Notes: Justice Todd's Majority ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Teri B. Himebaugh to discuss Commonwealth v. Shaw, in which SCOPA held that petitioners pursuant to the PCRA may assert claims of ineffective assistance of their appellate counsel for the first time on appeal. Show Notes: Chief Justice Saylor's Opinion Justice Mundy's Dissenting Opinion The Police Transparency Project Part 2 of The Philadelphia Inquirer's special report series, Losing Conviction Siphonaptera poem Read more about Commonwealth v. Shaw and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog. You can help us Raise the Bar for Penn ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorneys Dan McLane and Tom Sanchez  of Eckert Seamans to discuss Pittsburgh Logistics Sys., Inc. v. Beemac Trucking, LLC, a case in which the Court held unanimously that the Restatement test for no-hire/no-poach provisions ancillary to a services contract between two business entities governs in Pennsylvania and finding the subject no-hire/no-poach provision to be unenforceable.   Show Notes: Justice Mundy's Opinion United States Department of Justice's "No-Poach Approach" Bloomberg Law Summary Read more about Pittsburgh Logistics Sys ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Nathan Murawsky of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, PC to discuss Wise v. Huntingdon Cnty. Housing Dev. Corp., a case involving statutory sovereign immunity, and an exception thereto for injuries resulting from dangerous conditions of the Commonwealth's real estate.  In Wise, the Court at long last reassesses and rejects some of the more bizarre distinctions in this area of the law.   Show Notes: Chief Justice Baer's Opinion Justice Donohue's Concurring Opinion Justice Wecht's Concurring Opinion Read more about Wise ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Aaron Marcus of the Defender Association of Philadelphia to discuss Commonwealth v. Alexander, in which SCOPA held that the Pennsylvania Constitution provides motorists greater privacy rights than the federal Constitution, requiring any search of an automobile in Pennsylvania be supported not only by probable cause, as the federal Constitution requires, but also by exigent circumstances that make it impracticable to obtain a warrant.   Show Notes: Justice Donohue's Opinion Justice Baer's Concurring Opinion Chief Justice Saylor's Diss ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Brian McNeil of the York County Office of the Public Defender to discuss his victory in Commonwealth v. Peck, where he doggedly appealed to SCOPA despite the lower courts' swift dismissal of his close reading of PA's Drug Delivery Resulting in Death statute (DDRD).  Fortunately, SCOPA agreed with his arguments, thus saving his client 20-40 years from life behind bars.     Show Notes: Justice Donohue's Opinion Justice Wecht's Concurring Opinion Article from the York Daily Record Article:  Pennsylvania Uses the Char ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorneys Charlie Kelly and Michael Joyce to discuss the impact of SCOPA's ruling in Uniontown Newspapers, Inc. v. Pa. Dept. of Corr., interpreting an issue of first impression regarding PA's Right to Know Law. Show Notes: Opinion The Abolitionist Law Center's No Escape Investigation Read more about Uniontown Newspapers and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog. You can help us Raise the Bar for Pennsylvania Appeals by following Woods Law Offices on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listeni ..read more

Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Ken Behrend to discuss the impact of SCOPA's ruling in Gregg v. Ameriprise Financial, which held that a consumer challenging a company's deceptive conduct need not establish intent. Read more about Gregg and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog here: https://www.woodslawoffices.com/scopablog Visit Behrend Law Group's website here: https://www.behrendlawgroup.com/ You can help us Raise the Bar for Pennsylvania Appeals by following Woods Law Offices on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listeni ..read more