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Judge vows to move fast ahead of July 1 UPMC-Highmark split
Legal World News |
2019/06/02 12:25
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A Pennsylvania judge plans to rule in a couple weeks about whether and how a five-year consent decree that’s about to expire between two mammoth health care providers and the attorney general’s office can be modified.
Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson on Friday scheduled a two-day hearing about the future of the fraught business relationship Highmark and UPMC.
The state Supreme Court earlier this week asked for the proceedings, and it’s all but certain that the justices will review whatever Simpson determines.
The consent decree the companies signed in 2014 is set to expire at the end of June, triggering higher costs for Highmark insurance customers who get treatment at UPMC’s vast network in western Pennsylvania.
Simpson says he hopes to rule by June 14. |
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University of Wyoming plans $10M law school expansion
Law Firm Press Release |
2019/05/30 12:24
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The University of Wyoming is planning a $10 million expansion to its law school that coincides with the college's centennial celebration next year.
The Laramie Boomerang reported Thursday that the renovation to the College of Law is expected to be completed in December 2020, but the university expects most of the project to be done in time for the celebration in September 2020.
The university says U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is expected to speak for the law school celebration.
Law school dean Klint Alexander told university trustees that $4 million has already been raised for the project, which is still in the design phase.
The expansion project aims to bring the school's various legal clinics into the law building.
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ACLU: JPMorgan Chase settles paternal leave class action
Law Firm Press Release |
2019/05/28 12:23
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A civil rights group says JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by male employees who say they were denied additional paid parental leave between 2011 and 2017.
The settlement was announced Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union and the national law firm Outten & Golden.
Chase employee Derek Rotondo filed an equal opportunity claim in 2017 when he tried to get 14 additional paid weeks after his son was born. He was told by Chase that while mothers are eligible for 16 weeks as primary caregivers, non-primary caregivers were only eligible for two weeks.
Chase adopted a gender neutral policy after Rotondo made his claim.
A Chase spokesman welcomed the agreement and thanked Rotondo for raising the issue. |
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South Africa's Zuma must wait 3 months for court decision
Legal Information |
2019/05/24 15:24
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Former South African president Jacob Zuma will hear in three months' time whether corruption, racketeering and money laundering charges against him might be dropped.
Pietermaritzburg High Court judges have reserved judgment on his application for a permanent stay of prosecution. No date was announced.
Zuma was president from 2009 until 2018, when his ruling African National Congress party forced him to resign amid persistent corruption allegations. The scandal was seen as damaging the reputation of the ANC, which has been in power since the end of the harsh system of apartheid in 1994.
Public frustration over government corruption contributed to the ANC's weakest-ever election showing earlier this month, and current President Cyril Ramaphosa has apologized and vowed to crack down .
The scandals also have damaged confidence in South Africa's economy, the most developed in sub-Saharan Africa.
Zuma is accused of receiving bribes related to a 1999 arms deal. The charges were raised more than a decade ago and later withdrawn, then reinstated after a court ruled there were sufficient grounds to bring him to trial. |
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