Recent News About Judge Matthew W. Brann
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WILLIAMSPORT – After a settlement was completed in excessive force litigation brought by a prisoner currently in state custody against a number of corrections officials at SCI-Rockview, a federal judge ordered the case dismissed without prejudice.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A federal judge has sustained discovery objections from Geisinger Health and ordered plaintiffs to identify the job categories that fall within the definition of “Healthcare Workers” – in a class action lawsuit against the company and Evangelical Community Hospital, which claimed the Pennsylvania hospitals engaged in a secret “no-poach agreement” that suppressed professional mobility and salaries in Central Pennsylvania.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A settlement has been reached in excessive force litigation brought by a prisoner currently in state custody against a number of corrections officials at SCI-Rockview.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A lawsuit which alleged that a gymnastics camp counselor sexually abused the plaintiffs’ child and that the facility staff threatened the child and failed to report the abuse as required by law, will remain in a federal court.
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HARRISBURG – A federal judge has partially granted summary judgment to Shippensburg University, in litigation that alleged one of its administrators made numerous unwanted sexual advances toward a director of testing and that it both failed to accept that same director’s story, while also refusing to reinstate her employment.
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WILLIAMSPORT – Two corrections officials at SCI-Rockview have been dismissed from an excessive force lawsuit brought a prisoner currently in state custody, finding after viewing video evidence that they did not use force that was alleged at the time.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A New York couple have settled negligence claims against the Potter Family Campground, after one of the plaintiffs fell upon entering a cabin there and sustained a broken shoulder.
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WILLIAMSPORT – Corrections officials at SCI-Rockview are pursuing summary judgment in an excessive force lawsuit brought a prisoner currently in state custody, finding that such force was justified under the circumstances at the time.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A federal judge has denied a dismissal motion filed by counsel for corrections officials at SCI-Rockview, which sought to do away with an excessive force lawsuit filed by a prisoner in state custody.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A federal judge has upheld the suspension of a high school football player and top state-ranked wrestler, imposed for violations of the Southern Columbia Area School District’s drug and alcohol policy for students.
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PHILADELPHIA – Following a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District Court of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit unanimously dismissed the efforts of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign to overturn President-Elect Joe Biden’s win in the state of Pennsylvania.
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WILLIAMSPORT – After a federal judge dismissed the attempt of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign to prevent the certification of results signifying President-Elect Joe Biden’s win in the state of Pennsylvania with prejudice this past weekend, the Trump campaign has appealed the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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WILLIAMSPORT – Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s campaign are seeking permission to file a second amended version of a lawsuit that alleges unfair and unconstitutional election procedures in Pennsylvania caused the president to lose the state in the 2020 Presidential Election.
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WILLIAMSPORT – An amended version of a lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s campaign has walked back claims that Republican observers were not allowed to properly view the counting of ballots in highly Democratic areas of Pennsylvania.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A new lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s campaign alleges that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania did not use uniform election procedures statewide, thereby creating an unconstitutional and “two-track” ballot counting system that gave the win to President-Elect Joe Biden.
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HARRISBURG – A federal judge has dismissed without prejudice the bid of a group of Republican lawmakers and candidates who sued Philadelphia County, Delaware County and Centre County, alleging both GOP candidates and voters are being hurt by the use of nonprofit grant funds from the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL).
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WILLIAMSPORT – The Potter Family Campground discounts any liability for the injuries suffered by one member of a New York couple suing it, after that same plaintiff fell upon entering a cabin there and sustained a broken shoulder.
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SCRANTON – A federal judge has ordered further proceedings in the case of a prisoner housed at SCI-Forest, who claimed his 8th Amendment rights were violated when he was temporarily denied medical care for an abscessed tooth.
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WILLIAMSPORT – A Pennsylvania federal court has dismissed excessive force and other counts brought by an inmate at Huntingdon state prison, who claimed such force was used upon him during dry cell treatment after ingesting a razor blade.
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WILLIAMSPORT – An equipment manufacturer and distributor has obtained a protective order and confidentiality agreement governing the sharing of proprietary business information, in connection with a lawsuit from a Pennsylvania man whose fingers were cut off while using an excavator at a Pennsylvania Power & Light South Williamsport substation.
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