On 4/7/17, your attorney for dog bites in Luzerne County provided a free consultation to a Wilkes-Barre area woman whose son was attacked by a neighbor’s pit bull several days earlier. The boy’s basketball had gone over a neighbor’s fence. After he had jumped the fence to get the ball, the neighbor let out his pit bull. The dog immediately pursued the child and bit his leg. Attorney Thomas J. Newell reviewed the relevant statutory language of the PA Dog Law with the boy’s mother. There was no “Failure to Confine” (Section 305) because the pit bull attack took place within the neighbor’s confined backyard.
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