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Host Corrie Woods interviews attorney Brandy Grace Hoke to discuss Commonwealth v. Greer, which clarified when and how petitioners under the Post-Conviction Relief Act must seek and obtain new counsel to raise, and raise, claims of ineffective assistance of earlier postconviction counsel, on penalty of waiver.  The case is required reading for anyone who practices in the postconviction space.

Show Notes:

• Greer builds on the Court's decision in Commonwealth v. Bradley, which held that petitioners can raise claims of ineffective assistance of prior postconviction counsel for the first time on appeal.  In 2022, Corrie and Attorney Michael Wiseman discussed Bradley in an earlier episode.
• You can find the Court's opinion and Justice Donohue's concurring and dissenting opinion on SCOPABlog's June 2024 Docket Review.

Read more about Greer and all of the Court's cases on SCOPAblog.

And thanks as always to our producers, Ashley Woods, Rachel Annevelink, and Jaron Drake, for their hard work in making this episode a reality.

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Host Corrie Woods interviews attorney, professor, and Executive Director of the Women's Law Project Susan Frietsche to discuss Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Department of Human Services, which, among many constitutional holdings, overruled an earlier determination that a ban on abortion funding for Medicaid recipients did not violate Pennsylvania constitutional rights and set the stage for a recognition of reproductive rights as fundamental rights under the Commonwealth's charter.   

Show Notes:

• You can find Justice Christine Donohue's excellent, 219-page majority opinion, Justice David Wecht's 71-page concurring opinion, and all of the other Justices' opinions on SCOPABlog's January 2024 Docket Review.
• You can learn more about where the case has gone at the Women's Law Project's website.
• You can learn more about and support the Women's Law Project at its website.

Read more about Allegheny Reproductive Health Ctr. and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

And thanks as always to our producers, Ashley Woods and Jaron Drake, for their hard work in making this episode a reality.

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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 Opinion
• Justice Dougherty's Concurring Opinion
• Justice Wecht's Concurring Opinion
• Justice Mundy's Dissenting Opinion
• Shinn v. Ramirez summary
• Martinez v. Ryan Opinion Analysis

Read 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 Opinion
• Justice Saylor's Dissenting Opinion
•  Justice Mundy's Dissenting Opinion
• Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk
• In Re: Amazon Summary and Report

Read 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 Opinion
• Justice Mundy's Dissenting Opinion
• The Police Transparency Project
• Part 2 of The Philadelphia Inquirer's special report series, Losing Conviction
• Siphonaptera poem

Read 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 Opinion
• United States Department of Justice's "No-Poach Approach"
• Bloomberg Law Summary

Read 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 Opinion
• Justice Donohue's Concurring Opinion
• Justice Wecht's Concurring Opinion

Read more about Wise v. Huntingdon Cnty. Housing Dev. Corp. and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

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Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Aaron Marcus of the Defender Association of Philadelphia to discuss Commonwealth v. Alexander, in which SCOPA held that the Pennsylvania Constitution provides motorists greater privacy rights than the federal Constitution, requiring any search of an automobile in Pennsylvania be supported not only by probable cause, as the federal Constitution requires, but also by exigent circumstances that make it impracticable to obtain a warrant.
 
Show Notes:

• Justice Donohue's Opinion
• Justice Baer's Concurring Opinion
• Chief Justice Saylor's Dissenting Opinion
• Justice Dougherty's Dissenting Opinion
• Justice Mundy's Dissenting Opinion
• "Precedent and Discretion" by William Baude
• "Book Examines the History and Contemporary Role of Philadelphia's Public Defenders"

Read more about Commonwealth v. Alexander and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.

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Host Corrie Woods interviews fellow appellate attorney Brian McNeil of the York County Office of the Public Defender to discuss his victory in Commonwealth v. Peck, where he doggedly appealed to SCOPA despite the lower courts' swift dismissal of his close reading of PA's Drug Delivery Resulting in Death statute (DDRD).  Fortunately, SCOPA agreed with his arguments, thus saving his client 20-40 years from life behind bars.  
 
Show Notes:

• Justice Donohue's Opinion
• Justice Wecht's Concurring Opinion
• Article from the York Daily Record
• Article:  Pennsylvania Uses the Charge of "Drug Delivery Resulting in Death" More Than Any Other State
• The Appeal blog

Read more about Commonwealth v. Peck and all of SCOPA's cases on SCOPAblog.