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Matthew Santoni
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Journalist covering Pennsylvania courts for Law360. Incipient middle-aged Yinzer. Lover of dogs, books, and transportation stuff. Opinions are my own.
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Real estate broker Keller Williams had sued the owners of Beto's, a Pittsburgh restaurant specializing in "Ohio-Valley-style" pizza w/ cold toppings, over a scuttled sale & broker's fees, but the parties told the court they've settled the suit: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

Deal Cools Sale Broker's Beef With Cold-Cheese Pizzeria - Law360 UK
Deal Cools Sale Broker's Beef With Cold-Cheese Pizzeria - Law360 UK

A Pittsburgh cold-cheese pizzeria's beef with a real estate broker over the commission on what was almost a $2.1 million sale has cooled, with the parties telling a Pennsylvania state court they have ...

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Bills can't carry over from one session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the next - and neither can impeachments, the state Supreme Court ruled, throwing out the 2022 impeachment of Philly DA Larry Krasner: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

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Gov't-appointed advisory bodies can't have veto power over federal cabinet-level officials, the 3rd Circuit has ruled, though the court's solution was to only strike that veto power and not throw out the entire system for regulating fisheries: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

3rd Circ. Rules Commerce Fishery Councils Cannot Veto Regs - Law360
3rd Circ. Rules Commerce Fishery Councils Cannot Veto Regs - Law360

Government-appointed advisory councils that have the power to veto decisions of federal cabinet-level officials run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, the Third Circuit said, stripping that veto power fr...

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The justices overturned an Allegheny Co. judge who was one of only a few to rule in favor of coverage, when she said the "or" in "physical damage or loss" allowed for loss of use of a business's premises at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic to be covered by insurance.

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As many courts have said since the pandemic began, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania weighed in to rule that gov't-ordered business closures should not be covered by insurance b/c there was no physical damage done, Elizabeth Daley reports: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

Pa. Justices Say COVID Closures Aren't Covered Losses - Law360
Pa. Justices Say COVID Closures Aren't Covered Losses - Law360

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court shut the door Thursday on COVID-19 pandemic loss insurance coverage for businesses closed by government mandate, ruling that requisite physical loss or damage required tan...

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After having their last challenge tossed on a technicality, voting rights groups want the Supreme Court of PA to use its “King’s Bench” power to immediately take up a case over whether tossing mail-in votes w/ missing handwritten dates violates the PA constitution: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

Pa. Justices Urged To Reconsider Tossing Undated Ballots - Law360
Pa. Justices Urged To Reconsider Tossing Undated Ballots - Law360

Ten Pennsylvania voting rights groups on Wednesday urged the state Supreme Court to use its special "King's Bench" power and immediately take up arguments over whether throwing out mail-in votes that ...

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The City of Pittsburgh is looking to bow out of the litigation over the 2022 Fern Hollow Bridge collapse, with City Council OKing $500K - the city’s max liability under state law - & asking the court to figure out how to divide it among plaintiffs: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

Pittsburgh Council OKs $500K To Settle Bridge Collapse Suits - Law360
Pittsburgh Council OKs $500K To Settle Bridge Collapse Suits - Law360

The city of Pittsburgh approved handing a Pennsylvania state court $500,000 — the city's maximum liability under state law — so it can bow out of lawsuits brought by people injured in the 2022 collaps...

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ICYMI, PJ D'Annunzio reported PNC and Plaid Inc. struck a data-sharing deal that settled litigation over whether Plaid enticed people to share their bank credentials (for connecting accounts to Plaid-serviced financial apps) by copying PNC's logo and login screen: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

PNC, Plaid End Legal Battle With Customer Data-Sharing Deal - Law360
PNC, Plaid End Legal Battle With Customer Data-Sharing Deal - Law360

PNC Financial Services Group and Plaid have reached an agreement to end nearly four years of trademark litigation that allows PNC customers to use Plaid to share their financial data with fintech comp...

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A Pennsylvania appellate court said Washington County had to update online records to reflect if a mail-in ballot is accepted or rejected, since only marking them "received" deprived voters of the right to appeal their disqualification or cast a replacement vote: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

Pa. Panel Says County Must Tell Voters If Votes Are Tossed - Law360
Pa. Panel Says County Must Tell Voters If Votes Are Tossed - Law360

A Pennsylvania county violated voters' rights with a policy that prevented them from finding out if their mail-in ballots had been set aside as uncountable, a split state appellate panel ruled Tuesday...

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One of the family members in Pittsburgh's AMPD Hospitality group said he helped GS Labs set up six rapid-COVID-testing sites in Ohio and PA at the start of the pandemic, but never got his share of the millions the testing co. made: www.law360.com/pennsylvania...

Entrepreneur Says Partners Stiffed Him On Testing Site Deal - Law360
Entrepreneur Says Partners Stiffed Him On Testing Site Deal - Law360

A Pittsburgh entrepreneur says he had a deal with three Omaha, Nebraska-based businessmen to help them open COVID-19 testing labs in Ohio and Pennsylvania in the early days of the pandemic, but is sti...

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Matthew Santoni
@msantoni.bsky.social
Journalist covering Pennsylvania courts for Law360. Incipient middle-aged Yinzer. Lover of dogs, books, and transportation stuff. Opinions are my own.
91 followers334 following234 posts