![]() ![]() ![]() Lawton for what they allege is “deliberate indifference to the funding needs” of the Adult Unit of the Luzerne County Public Defender’s Office. Flora Jr., along with three indigent adult criminal defendants, has filed a class action suit against the county and County Manager Robert C. Luzerne County Chief Public Defender Albert J. Public Defender Sues County for Underfunding The original court records for juveniles who were sent to Luzerne County detention facilities in the “kids-for-cash” scandal will stay closed, a federal judge ruled this week. Judge Refuses to Open Juvenile Records in ‘Kids-for-Cash’ Civil Suit The state Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a Luzerne County prothonotary who sued when the county decided to dissolve the elected office and create an appointed system for overseeing judicial records. High Court Denies Appeal in Luzerne County Prothonotary Case Orie on temporary suspension from the Pennsylvania bar because of their criminal convictions. ![]() The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued two orders today placing former Luzerne County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark A. Full TextĪfter Convictions, Ciavarella and Orie Suspended From Bar Mericle’s construction company built juvenile facilities that housed youths sent there by two former Luzerne County judges who were getting kickbacks for filling the detention centers. of America is not obligated to defend or indemnify Robert Mericle in suits stemming from the “kids-for-cash” scandal in Luzerne County. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that Travelers Property Casualty Co. ‘Kids-for-Cash’ Developer Not Covered by Insurance The state Superior Court said in an unpublished decision issued Thursday that a business partner in the juvenile detention facilities at the center of the Luzerne County judicial scandal cannot sustain his malicious prosecution claims against the Juvenile Law Center and the law firm of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller. Full TextĬlaims of Malicious Prosecution Over ‘Kids-for-Cash’ Dashed Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that insurers are not responsible for defending or indemnifying a juvenile-detention center operator who was involved in the “kids-for-cash” scandal in Luzerne County. The second in a pair of opinions in as many days from the U.S. ![]() Insurers Need Not Cover Powell in ‘Kids-for-Cash’ Suits The detention facilities that housed juveniles in the Luzerne County “kids-for-cash” scandal won’t be able to get the teens’ criminal records during discovery in a civil action brought by dozens of the teens who were put away, a federal judge has ruled. Full Textĭefendants Can’t Revisit Cases of ‘Kids-for-Cash’ Youths District Judge Edwin Kosik of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who presided over his trial, had shown bias against him. is arguing that his convictions related to the bribes he took to place youthful offenders in a privately owned juvenile detention center in the “kids-for-cash” scandal should be set aside because U.S. Full Textģrd Circuit Weighs Judicial Bias Claim In Kids-for-Cash Caseįormer Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Mark A. The state Supreme Court announced changes designed to speed the appellate review of cases where child offenders are placed outside their homes in court delinquency matters. High Court Changes Rules to Speed Review of Juvenile Cases Ciavarella Jr., agreed to last December in a civil suit brought by a class of juvenile plaintiffs. Mericle, the builder of two juvenile detention facilities who allegedly paid millions in “finder’s fees” to former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judges Michael T. Richard Caputo of the Middle District of Pennsylvania has approved the $17.75 million settlement that Robert K. ![]()
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