Articles

The Florida Supreme Court in a 5-2 vote recently struck down the state’s statutory cap on non-economic damages for medical malpractice cases as a violation of the Florida constitution’s equal protection clause. More important, however, is the fact that the court sharply chastised the state legislature for manufacturing a medical malpractice crisis in order to […]

Fairlie & Lippy, a small Montgomery County Criminal Defense and Personal Injury firm is pleased to announce that three of the firm’s lawyers have been named to Philadelphia Magazine’s “SuperLawyers” lists this year. Steven Fairlie has been named again to both the Top 100 lawyers in Philadelphia and the Top 100 lawyers in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth […]

Image courtesy www.patch.com   81 year-old Thomas Holliday of Lower Makefield, Bucks County was sentenced recently to 935 to 1,870 years in prison by The Honorable Albert J. Cepparulo. In January, Holliday was convicted of 234 counts related to possession of child pornography and sexually abusing a girl for four years and filming the abuse, […]

On April 28, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued its decision in Commonwealth v. Spence, 2014 WL 1669795, in which it held that cell phones are not “devices” for the purposes of the Pennsylvania wiretapping statutes, and as such, police (or anyone, for that matter) may intercept communication from a cell phone without violating the […]

In November we featured a blog article about a case in which York County Common Pleas Judge John C. Uhler found lifetime registration requirements for juvenile sex offenders pursuant to SORNA to be unconstitutional under Pennsylvania’s constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The case is now before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and on […]