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

Carolina Beats Duke!

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Promoted Tweets Are Hacking My Twitter Account.

No. 1,436 I DID NOT — NOT — AUTHORIZE THIS PROMOTED TWEET TO BE INSERTED INTO MY TWITTER ACCOUNT!

FAMILY LAW: Parental responsibility and the risk of football concussions.

No. 1,435 The New York Times ran an article recently focusing on a custody dispute involving a divorced Upper St. Clair couple with a family law issue that is becoming increasingly common. Their son played high school football and had experienced concussion-like symptoms, but had eventually been cleared by a doctor to play. His father, […]

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