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SCRANTON - A Jewish man who worked as sales director for MediaNews in Scranton alleges religious discrimination, including a co-worker telling him he was good with money because of his religion.
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Attorney General Michelle Henry is warning Pennsylvanians to be aware and stay cautious of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) imposter scams during the upcoming tax season.
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ALLENTOWN – Lehigh Township and its Chief of Police have categorically denied allegations from a female former officer of the Lehigh Township Police Department, that, over a five-year period, the Chief of Police targeted her for sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse, creating what she called a “hostile, toxic and intolerable work environment” that led to her resignation.
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ALLENTOWN – A female former officer of the Lehigh Township Police Department has alleged that over a five-year period, the Chief of Police targeted her for sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse, creating what she calls a “hostile, toxic and intolerable work environment” which led to her resignation.
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PITTSBURGH – A Lyft driver accused of shooting a 55-year-old man to death in August 2022 in the parking lot of a Sheetz convenience store has claimed that his actions were only taken in self-defense.
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MEDIA – A Florida woman has reiterated that she was violently assaulted by staff members of an Upper Darby hookah lounge, despite its refusal to accept liability for her injuries.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that partner Molly Crane has been recognized in City & State Pennsylvania's 2023 Philadelphia Forty Under 40.
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PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County insists that it did not violate its own Home Rule Charter and Administrative Code and that it is immune from a count of negligent infliction of emotional distress, in a lawsuit over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate allegedly violating a plaintiff’s religious objections.
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MEDIA – Delaware County’s Republican Party and its Chairman have launched legal action against the County and its Council, alleging that an ordinance governing the selections of members to the local Board of Elections runs afoul of state election code.
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MEDIA – A local man who alleged that he was bitten by bed bugs during his three-day stay in an Econo Lodge hotel located in Delaware County more than two years ago, has settled his claims.
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PITTSBURGH – A German restaurant in Pittsburgh has denied liability in a discrimination lawsuit from a former employee, who accused it of discriminating against him for his homosexuality and disability, and later firing him without cause.
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MEDIA – An Upper Darby hookah lounge and its owner have denied responsibility for injuries a Florida woman claims she sustained, when she was allegedly and violently assaulted by members of its staff.
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PHILADELPHIA – In litigation where defendants were accused of not providing more than 151,000 COVID-19 test kits or a refund to a retailer who paid it nearly $2 million, third-party defendants named in a later version of the complaint have lost their attempt to be dismissed from it.
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MEDIA – Counsel for the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is seeking to compel deposition testimony from a woman who claimed she was seriously injured in a fall at a home the Institute owned, one year ago.
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PHILADELPHIA – The family of slain Temple University Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald has filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against his alleged, teenaged murderer Miles Pfeffer, Pfeffer’s parents and his mother’s longtime boyfriend, charging that they knew of the alleged killer’s mental instability and violent tendencies, and did not prevent him from committing Fitzgerald’s murder.
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PITTSBURGH – A pair of Western Pennsylvania homeowners have sued their next-door neighbors, claiming that the defendants’ illegally-constructed parking area has resulted in groundwater runoff flooding their finished basement.
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HARRISBURG – A Maryland woman who alleged that the organizing companies of the York State Fair were negligent in failing to prevent her injuries when a passing thunderstorm caused her to be hit by a metal object when she was attending the fair, has seen her case remanded to a Pennsylvania state court.
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MEDIA – Just days before three former Borough of Sharon Hill police officers were sentenced to house arrest and probation for their involvement in a shooting which killed an 8-year-old girl in August 2021, a Delaware County judge upheld the denial of releasing the full and unredacted version of the Borough’s report on its community policing procedures to a local citizen advocate.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has authorized a settlement between a group of plaintiffs and the City of Philadelphia, over the plaintiffs’ claims the City failed to maintain its sidewalks to provide proper access to disabled citizens in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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LANCASTER – Litigation brought by two shoppers allegedly injured while escaping from a shooting incident at the Park City Mall a year and a half ago, has seen a stipulation approved whereby one of the plaintiffs will be dismissed from the case due to a past diagnosis of dementia.