Article / Municipal Update by Lamb McErlane Attorneys Mark P. Thompson and Melissa A. Rheinstadter. In a decision earlier this year, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that agrivoltaics, commonly referred to as “solar farms,” do not constitute an agricultural...
By Lamb McErlane attorneys Mark Thompson, Esq. & Melissa Rheinstadter, Esq. Pennsylvania produces $10 billion in agricultural products annually according to census data released earlier this year. This is not surprising; Pennsylvania is home to over 50,000 farm operations. In...
December 8, 2020 Legal Intelligencer / Law Weekly article by Lamb McErlane PC attorneys James ‘Jim’ Sargent, Jr., & Katherine E. LaDow. Preliminary Objections: Challenging the Declaration of Taking. The condemnee has a limited ability to challenge the governmental taking...
October 8, 2020, Legal Intelligencer article by: Lamb McErlane PC attorneys James C. Sargent, Jr., Esquire & Katherine E. LaDow, Esquire* Valuation Proceedings Board of Viewers Either the condemnor or the condemnee can institute valuation proceedings by filing a petition...
In a ruling affecting tens of thousands of homeowners around the state, a Pennsylvania appellate court recently ruled that home warranty arbitration provisions may not be binding on subsequent purchasers. In a decision handed down last month, the Pennsylvania Superior...
As we all are aware, on April 1, 2020, Governor Tom Wolf ordered all non-essential businesses across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to close their physical locations. Many Pennsylvania businesses have successfully transitioned from working face-to-face with customers to conducting business...
In enforcing the laws of the PA Commonwealth, police officers, like doctors and nurses, will frequently interact with members of the public and place themselves at a high risk of infection. Given the contagious nature of COVID-19, the risk that...
Small business owners who have suffered economic losses due to coronavirus business closures may soon get some much-needed relief. The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) is allocating up to $61,000,000 in no-to-low interest loans to provide critical working capital financing...
On March 2, 2007, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission issued an Order (Docket No. M-2016-2517831) resulting from its self-initiated review of the issues relating to the Commission’s existing regulation of Distributed Antennae System Providers (“DAS”) as public utilities. After an...