Pitt Law Selects New Dean

No. 1,447 The University of Pittsburgh announced yesterday that it had selected Amy J Wildermuth of the University of Utah to be its new Dean, commencing July 1. The new Dean is both a law professor and a high-ranking administrative officer at Utah, being that University’s first chief sustainability officer. Prior to joining the law […]

What duty does a jay-walker have in the age of driverless vehicles?

So who is negligent here? Â The engineers who designed the driverless system, the back-up driver, or the jay-walker? Or is it some combination of these?

If everyone is unhappy is the court dispensing justice?

No. 1,445 Setting the thermostat at 72º is not a bad decision. There are others to consider beside these two outliers, after all. There is no win-win here. But there is a lose-lose. Or is there? One can wear two sweaters, while the other can set up a small fan.

Bad decision: Engineer leaves voicemail about cracks in the bridge.

No. 1,444 According to this article in the Miami Herald, the fact that cracks started to appear in the Florida International University Foot Bridge (which collapsed when it had been used for only a few days) was not necessarily bad news. Maybe so, but that won’t sound very convincing to the jury, will it? I […]

Moon over the Ocean.

No. 1,443

Even Once-in-a-Century Events Eventually Happen.

No. 1,442 Nobody knows what the real odds were that the University of Maryland Baltimore City, a lowly 16th seed in the NCAA basketball tournament, would defeat the number one seed Virginia Cavaliers. The last-place teams are deliberately selected to give small schools who can’t compete for top recruits a piece of the tournament action. […]

On having a bad day.

No. 1,441 Today we commemorate the 2,067th anniversary of when Julius Caesar had a very bad day. We all have them. Lawyers, who engage in a very competitive environment, perhaps have more than their share. Yesterday, one of the greatest minds of our time passed into eternity. In one sense, he had been having a […]

Rites of Spring: Daylight Savings Time and banishing Winter.

No. 1,440 Although the pond may still be frozen solid, Daylight Savings promises it won’t stay that way too long. We live in the Age of Reason, a time when we no longer believe in superstitious practices. But we follow plenty of them anyway because they are still part of us. Sometimes we ignore the […]

Is a new Act 6 or Act 91 Notice required when a second mortgage foreclosure is commenced?

No. 1,439 This issue was addressed in Wells Fargo Bank v. Spivak, 104 A.3d, 7 (2014) where there had been a voluntary discontinuance followed by the filing of a new case, without re-sending of the Act 6 Notice. The Superior Court apparently distinguished the facts in Spivak in a non-precidential decision in J. C. Morgan […]

Question: How much does this job pay?

No. 1,438

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