Without explanation, the 3rd Circuit has quietly reassigned the judge overseeing high-profile antitrust litigation in Pittsburgh. The move is rare, but the silence around it is rarer still, according to Pennsylvania legal observers.

Disagreeing with two of his colleagues in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a federal judge has ruled that GlaxoSmithKline is based in Delaware, which means that drug products liability litigation against the company will remain in federal court.

Months after a Pennsylvania court ruled that talking on a cellphone while driving is not egregious enough to warrant punitive damages in a motor vehicle accident case, a federal magistrate judge has tossed an injured man’s plea for punitives in an accident where he alleged the striking driver “looked at” his cellphone.

A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that allegations that a former chief technology officer sabotaged a planned merger by sending information stored securely on executives’ computers to potential suitors did not bring into play the protections of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

A former Pennsylvania traffic judge has been charged by the state’s Judicial Conduct Board with violating the state constitution and judicial conduct rules for magisterial district judges because he allegedly showed two pictures of his “erect penis” to a Philadelphia Parking Authority contractor.