The Pennsylvania Superior Court just shocked the world with something we have written about over and over on this blog. If you smoke medical marijuana prescribed by a doctor in Pennsylvania and then then drive your car at any point in the next month you risk getting a DUI. Right now you are probably rejecting […]
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Bucks County lifts COVID mask requirements for all Courts
Today Bucks County’s Court Administrator sent out a notice to all members of the Bucks County Bar Association advising that President Judge Wallace Bateman has lifted the mask requirement for all Bucks County Courts, effective yesterday. Yesterday we wrote that Montgomery County Courts did the same thing. As a result, lawyers, Judges and members of […]
Montgomery County Courts lift the mask mandate!
Just today all levels of Courts in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania have lifted the “mask mandate.” As a result, it is now up to each person in Court to decide whether he or she wishes to wear a mask – or not. President Judge Carolyn Carluccio suggested that Montgomery County Courts will continue to follow CDC […]
Here we go again- Bucks County Suspends Jury Trials – COVID
We were all hopeful that this was behind us, but with the recent surge in COVID in the Philadelphia suburbs Bucks County has suspended all jury trial from January 20, 2022 through February 28, 2022. It will be interesting to see if another Order comes out suspending trials from February 28 or jury trials will […]
Cops smell weed – can you be arrested?
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just addressed, though not necessarily answered, the long-standing question of whether police may search or arrest based upon the mere odor of marihuana. The Court held that the odor of marihuana alone is no longer sufficient to create probable cause to arrest now that marihuana is legal in many forms […]
