If you didn’t know something was against the law, how could you know not to do it? This question has received some attention in American jurisprudence. By and large, United States law does not recognize ignorance of the law as…
Many different individuals might be responsible for another’s slip and fall in a hospital. Any nurse, janitor, or doctor might make a mistake resulting in another’s injury, from a doctor prescribing the wrong dosage of medication to a janitor forgetting…
A Pennsylvania judge presiding over a divorce has the discretion to grant spousal support—defined as maintenance payments from one former spouse to another in the time before, during, and after the divorce. This is also called alimony. As one might…
In 1995, the federal government passed legislation that required all states to at least consider placing the blood alcohol limit (BAC) for minors at 0.02%. As a result, most states today have a 0.02% limit for minors. This strict standard…