Public Entity Liability & Civil Rights Articles

New Jersey Law Journal, Vol. CXCI, No. 2, January 14, 2008

• Remedies for Disable Students Curtailed
  By Christopher J. Conrad, Esq

Defense Digest, Volume 13, No. 4, December 2007

• The First Amendment's Protection Applies To Certain Comments Directed Toward Police Officers
  By Christian D. Marquis, Esq.
• Streets, Sidewalks And The Applicability Of The Sidewalk Exception To Streets 'Owned' By The Commonwealth In Second And Third Class Cities
  By Mark Neff, Esq

Defense Digest, Volume 13, No. 2, June 2007

• One Call Or Last Call? Commonwealth Court Stops Property Owner's Celebration Early In Municipal Liability Case
  By Christopher P. Boyle Sr., Esq.

Defense Digest, Volume 12, No. 4, December 2006

• Squaring The Circle: The Third Circuit Mandates Pre-Answer Procedures For Qualified Immunity Challenges To Factually Vague Complaints
  By Alan E. Johnson, Esq.

Lawyers Journal:  Journal of the Allegheny County Bar Association, September 5, 2003

• Supervisory Rule Concerning Motions Based on Qualified Immunity Imposed
  By Joseph J. Santarone, Esq. and James M. Caponi, Esq.

Defense Digest, Volume 11, No. 3, September 2005 

• Pushing The Tort Claims Act Threshold
  Paul C. Johnson, Esq.
• Land Use Earthquake: Supreme Court Modifies "Takings" Jurisprudence
  By Alan E. Johnson, Esq.

Defense Digest, Volume 11, No. 2, June 2005 

• Tort Claims Notice Required For All Torts, Including Intentional Torts
  By Matthew J. Behr, Esq.

Defense Digest, Volume 11, No. 1, March 2005

• It's Not What You Said, It's How You Said It: The Third Circuit Addresses Municipal Exposure To First Amendment Retaliation Claims Brought By Citizens Outside The Employment Context
  By Scott G. Dunlop, Esq.

Defense Digest, Volume 10, No. 4, December 2004

• Close Judicial Scrutiny of Qualified Immunity and Municipal Liability in an Excessive Use-Of-Force Death Case
  By Paul D. Krepps, Esq.

Defense Digest, Volume 10, No. 2, June 2004

• The First Amendment's Rising Popularity In Municipal Employment Litigation
  By Patricia A. Monahan, Esq.

Defense Digest, Volume 10, No. 1, March 2004

• Moving the Goalposts?
  By Paul C. Johnson, Esq.

Defense Digest, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2003

• Third Circuit Rules Plaintiff Failed To Follow Pennsylvania Procedure For Petitioning Grand Jury Files
  By Joseph J. Santarone, Jr., Esq. and James M. Caponi, Esq.

Defense Digest, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2003

• Municipal Liability for the Statement of One, Depends on the Authority Given by the Many
  By John J. Hare, Esq.