The court also rejected the DOJ's argument that the controlling Third Circuit precedent for weighing patient privacy in subpoena disputes was "wrongly decided" 40+ years ago. Patients at Childrens' Hospital in Pittsburgh have pointed to this ruling in their fight against a similar subpoena there.

Justice Kevin Dougherty led the opinions applying federal precedent to a town's restrictions on private shooting ranges, broke with his colleagues on whether they had the right case to address abortion rights, and said counties had to notify voters if their mail-in ballots are rejected:

Justice David Wecht wrote the opinions striking down Pittsburgh's 'jock tax' as unequal, joined Justice Donohue in supporting a constitutional right to abortion (part of the state's strong protection of privacy), and found that gerrymandered electoral maps violate free expression & free association:

My colleagues & I rounded up notable decisions led by each of the judges up for retention. Justice Christine Donohue took a former justice to task for hobbling the Penn State abuse case, upheld limits on how PA's natural resources can be sold, & said the state constitution protects abortion rights:

Calvin’s love waits for no deadline.

In Pennsylvania, that’s not always the case now! (We explained the code of conduct was more like a set of rules he had to follow, and if he didn’t, then the legal contract his parents had signed lets the school kick him out.)

www.law360.com/articles/239...

Lawyer + journalist parents here: When ours was asked by his teacher to sign a student code of conduct, he pointedly questioned if the students could really form a binding legal contract because they were minors.

Last but not least, @ypeterkang.bsky.social wrote about the PA Supreme Court holding that a parent signing a waiver can't bind a spouse -- or their kid -- to arbitration, a big deal for attractions like trampoline parks, laser tag, ropes courses, etc.