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Following a random drawing, the order of seniority for newly elected state Supreme Court justices will be Christine Donohue, Kev...

December 03

Voters have elected three new members to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Superior Court judges David Wecht and Christine Don...

November 06

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has released the Report of Special Counsel Regarding the Review of Justice Eakin's Personal E...

November 01

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued the following in the matter of Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kathleen Granahan Kane.

UPDATE: The link now includes all related documents....

September 21

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session in Kittanning, Armstrong County, on Thursday and Friday, September...

September 15

The Supreme Court has unsealed documents in seven grand jury filings related to Attorney General Kathleen Kane. The documents we...

August 26

In light of public statements made last week by Attorney General Kane, the Court is releasing two previously sealed orders for p...

August 18

Finding public court information is easier than ever with PAeDocket – including results about cases, such as charges, cou...

August 04

Approximately one-third of Pennsylvania’s 60 judicial districts report that they either use comfort dogs in dependency cou...

July 27

The Pennsylvania Judiciary’s Twitter feed has reached a milestone, climbing to 4,000 followers. Since its launch in Octo...

June 24

Since 2012, 24 percent more children have been placed in “kinship” foster care, according to 2014 data collected by...

May 28

Want to help former servicemen and servicewomen who come into contact with the criminal justice system? Pennsylvania’s j...

May 22

In an effort to increase the pool of attorneys available to provide civil legal services to those who cannot afford them, the Pe...

May 21

Finding public court information is easier than ever with the launch of PAeDocket – a free iPhone and iPad app that provid...

May 12

The number of medical malpractice case filings dipped last year to the lowest point since statewide tracking began in 2000. Th...

May 08

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session in Media, PA, at 9 a.m. on May 8 in Courtroom 1 of the Delawa...

May 04

Zygmont A. Pines, Esq. will step down July 31, 2015 as Court Administrator of Pennsylvania and be succeeded by Deputy Court Admi...

April 29

Pennsylvania drivers were cited 1,410 times in 2014 for texting while driving and 711 times for using headphones while driving,...

April 28

— The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Washington County. The ses...

April 16

The Pennsylvania Commission on Judicial Independence (PCJI) was established in 2005 by the state Supreme Court amid growing conc...

April 14

Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor has asked lawyers to support the Commonwealth’s civil legal aid programs by providing pro b...

April 13

Duke isn’t the only Final Four team celebrating a championship. The Pennsylvania Judiciary won the FindLaw Court Madness...

April 07

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania will hold a special session in Pottsville on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14 and 15, 2015. Th...

April 06

Pennsylvania courts collected more than $462 million in fees, fines, costs and restitution in 2014, $7 million more than the pre...

March 16

Pennsylvania’s judiciary today unveiled criminal caseload “dashboards,” the latest in a series of interactive,...

March 12

A pilot program that links lawyers who want to volunteer their services with clients unable to afford legal help was created tod...

March 04

A just-released, third edition Benchbook on Crimes of Sexual Violence in Pennsylvania will help the state’s trial judges c...

March 03

More than $77 million in traffic fines and other court-ordered fines, fees, costs and restitution was collected last year throug...

February 17

The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) is seeking comment on a proposed public access policy concerning case re...

February 05

Thomas G. Saylor of Camp Hill was inducted as Pennsylvania’s 56th chief justice of the Supreme Court. As chief justice, he...

January 08

Pennsylvania now has more than 100 problem-solving courts across the Commonwealth — and counting. During the first few d...

January 08