Recently, the Pennsylvania Superior Court decided a Personal Injury case, Wittrien v. Burkholder, which arose out of a shooting which occurred in Lancaster County.  The central issue was whether parents of an adult child who lived with them and who legally purchased a gun could be held liable when he shot someone.  Although the parents […]

In 1988, in Newark, New Jersey, Rose Cippollone’s family won the first civil suit victory against a tobacco company in United States history.  What the Cippollone family did not realize, however, was that its legal battles were only beginning and that Liggett would fight the verdict to the Supreme Court, and beyond.
The Case
Rose Cippollone was […]