Consol Energy Center — a Hat Trick!

With the opening of the Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh now has three state of the art major league sports venues. And then there’s the Petersen Event Center at Pitt and Palumbo Center at Duquesne. Not bad for a town where none of them existed not too many years ago.

Case of the Week: Pikunse v. Kopchinski, 631 A.2d 1049 (1993)

Earlier this week, I had a terrific group of lawyers attend my Landlord Tenant Litigation seminar at the Community College of Allegheny County North Hills campus. I told them I would post information about some of the cases mentioned in the seminar. And so, I decided to start a new feature called “Case of the Week” to highlight interesting and useful cases. Here’s the inaugural case:

Comment No. 300

No. 488 Well, I noticed the other day that this blog had hit comment number 300. Amazing. So, I decided to investigate where the comment came from. It was I. CLT

AVVO ANSWER: House Sold for Taxes but Owner Thought Taxes Were Being Paid by Lender.

Tax sales can be overturned for lack of proper notice — but you must act promptly.

WikiLeaks Strikes. NYT Reports.

No. 486 The internet has come to be the place where news breaks without warning, causing big problems for the main line media. There are those who have no compunction about releasing doctored or highly edited audio and video, misleading but with the look and feel of truth. We had an example of this earlier […]

Tip to Landlords: Don’t Mail or Email a Notice to Quit.

The Landlord and Tenant Act contains specific instructions on how to serve a notice to quit when evicting a tenant. The landlord must hand it to the tenant, post it on the door or slip it under the door. No other method will do.

Security Deposit Games.

I have been having an interesting conversation with a former resident in an apartment complex who moved out several months ago, leaving a forwarding address. Her landlord sent here a “list of damages” which in fact contained no damages at all, and no refund check.

American Authors to be Protected from Foreign Libel Judgments Inconsistent with First Amendment.

The New York Times reports that the U S Senate unanimously passed a statute protecting American authors from libel judgments obtained overseas in jurisdictions where it is easier to get a verdict. The Times reports that in some places, such as Britain, the burden is placed upon the Defendant in a libel action to prove truth.

Payday Loans on the Internet? Yikes!

No. 482 Do not ever obtain a loan on the Internet. Here’s what happened to a person from Harrisburg who took out a payday loan. He ended up with three more loans that he didn’t remember making and actually paid them! Then he posted this question on AVVO Answers. CLT

Name Something Illegal In Every Nation On Earth,That Every Nation Does.

No. 481 Espionage. Talk about hypocrisy! Its a capital offense, yet the sentence is commuted regularly when we exchange our spies for their spies. If it threatens the survival of our society, and if we wanted to actually deter spying, why would we ever let one go free? CLT

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