Senior Judge John M. Cleland, who has been brought in to handle some of Pennsylvania’s most high-profile legal issues in the last few years, has again been tapped by the state Supreme Court, this time to oversee a case involving one of the court’s members.
According to a court spokesman, Cleland has been appointed to preside over the case of Rapaport v. Intertrust GCN, the defamation suit filed against owners and staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News by Justice Seamus P. McCaffery and his aide, Lise Rapaport, who are husband and wife.
