Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 7 May 2012
When choosing to schedule a hearing, PA's Office of Open Records puts a notice in the PA Bulletin.
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 19 Apr 2012
About a week ago, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument about a school's attempt to ban t-shirts and wristbands with the "I ♥ boobies" slogan on them.
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 2 Dec 2011
On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its decision on whether a school district has to pay for a student to attend a charter or cyber charter school’s kindergarten program when the student is too young to attend the district’s program.
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 28 Nov 2011
The Florida courts have come to the interesting conclusion that a BB gun is not a weapon and reversed the resulting school discipline imposed.
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 29 Jun 2011
So long as they are not intentionally driving the tax collector out of business, and are not being otherwise "arbitrary or capricious," local taxing authorities -- such as PA School Districts -- are apparently allowed to pay their tax collectors however little they would like.
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 28 Jun 2011
Apparently, if you want to complain that an agency in PA improperly redacted information from documents, you have to first pay for and receive the redacted documents.
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 23 Jun 2011
Today, the PA Commonwealth Court decided a case that further interpreted and gave a fairly concrete standard for deciding whether a Pennsylvania court may over-rule an employment arbitration award based on public policy.
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 6 Apr 2011
In a somewhat surprising case dealing with Worker's Compensation (yes, even public school districts have to deal with WC), Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court rejected the University of Pennsylvania's claim for termination of benefits to an injured employee with a later criminal conviction.