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Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Michael Wiseman of Wiseman & Schwartz to discuss Commonwealth v. Bradley, holding that petitioners pursuant to the Post Conviction Relief Act may assert claims of ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel at the earliest available opportunity, including on direct appeal.
 
Show Notes:
Justice Todd's Majority OpinionJustice Dougherty's Concurring OpinionJustice Wecht's Concurring OpinionJustice Mundy's Dissenting OpinionShinn v. Ramirez summaryMartinez v. Ryan Opinion AnalysisRead more about Bradley and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

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In this Season 1 finale episode, fellow appellate attorney and former judicial clerk Jill Lipman Beck of Blank Rome joins host Corrie Woods to discuss the most impactful Supreme Court of Pennsylvania cases and issues of 2021.   

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Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Pete Winebrake of Winebrake & Santillo to discuss In Re: Amazon.com, Inc., Fulfillment Center Fair Labor Standards Act and Wage and Hour Litigation (In Re: Amazon) in which SCOPA held that an employee's time spent on an employer's premises awaiting mandatory security screening constitutes time "worked" for purposes of Pennsylvania's Minimum Wage Act, and that the maxim de minimum non curat lex, or, the law does not care for trivialities, does not apply to time worked for purposes of that Act.
 
Show Notes:
Justice Todd's Majority OpinionJustice Saylor's Dissenting Opinion Justice Mundy's Dissenting OpinionIntegrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. BuskIn Re: Amazon Summary and ReportRead more about In Re: Amazon and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

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Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Teri B. Himebaugh to discuss Commonwealth v. Shaw, in which SCOPA held that petitioners pursuant to the PCRA may assert claims of ineffective assistance of their appellate counsel for the first time on appeal.

Show Notes:
Chief Justice Saylor's OpinionJustice Mundy's Dissenting OpinionThe Police Transparency ProjectPart 2 of The Philadelphia Inquirer's special report series, Losing ConvictionSiphonaptera poemRead more about Commonwealth v. Shaw and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

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Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorneys Dan McLane and Tom Sanchez  of Eckert Seamans to discuss Pittsburgh Logistics Sys., Inc. v. Beemac Trucking, LLC, a case in which the Court held unanimously that the Restatement test for no-hire/no-poach provisions ancillary to a services contract between two business entities governs in Pennsylvania and finding the subject no-hire/no-poach provision to be unenforceable.
 
Show Notes:
Justice Mundy's OpinionUnited States Department of Justice's "No-Poach Approach"Bloomberg Law SummaryRead more about Pittsburgh Logistics Sys., Inc. v. Beemac Trucking, LLC and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

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Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Nathan Murawsky of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, PC to discuss Wise v. Huntingdon Cnty. Housing Dev. Corp., a case involving statutory sovereign immunity, and an exception thereto for injuries resulting from dangerous conditions of the Commonwealth's real estate.  In Wise, the Court at long last reassesses and rejects some of the more bizarre distinctions in this area of the law.
 
Show Notes:
Chief Justice Baer's OpinionJustice Donohue's Concurring OpinionJustice Wecht's Concurring OpinionRead more about Wise v. Huntingdon Cnty. Housing Dev. Corp. and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

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