PITTSBURGH – Litigation from two college students who say that social media app Snapchat was designed to protect perpetrators using it to harass innocent people will now be heard in a California federal court.
HARRISBURG – The United States of America has substituted itself for a number of individual defendants in litigation from a Black-owned EMS ambulance company in Western Pennsylvania which alleged it faced a conspiracy of racial discrimination on the part of the defendants, and additionally filed to dismiss the entire action for failure to state a claim.
LANCASTER – A home health care agency and one of its nurses have objected to a lawsuit brought by the parent of a child with cerebral palsy, which alleged that the defendants’ collective negligence led her disabled child to fall and suffer severe leg injuries.
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has overruled preliminary objections made by Starbucks in a case filed by a Pittsburgh doctor and her husband, after she allegedly suffered knee and head injuries in a scooter accident at a local branch of the coffee company.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman who was allegedly assaulted and kidnapped by her now-deceased ex-boyfriend in September of last year, has settled claims made against his estate to recover money she lent him.
LANCASTER – The parent of a child with cerebral palsy who filed suit against a home health care agency and one of its nurses, claiming that their collective negligence led her disabled child to fall and suffer severe leg injuries, is now pursuing a default judgment against those same parties.
LANCASTER – The parent of a child with cerebral palsy has filed suit against a home health care agency and one of its nurses, claiming that their collective negligence led her disabled child to fall and suffer severe leg injuries.
ERIE – A former Pennsylvania resident currently living in Michigan who sued Venango County authorities for allegedly failing to protect him from a fellow inmate who broke his jaw, has withdrawn charges against the only named defendant.
HARRISBURG – Multiple defendants are seeking to dismiss litigation from a Black-owned EMS ambulance company in Western Pennsylvania, which alleged it faced a conspiracy of racial discrimination on the part of the defendants, for failure to state a claim.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman has settled negligence claims with a Western Pennsylvania property manager and landlord, after alleging that those actions led her to suffer third-degree burns when she went to take a shower.
PITTSBURGH – The estate of a man counters a lawsuit brought by a Western Pennsylvania woman who was allegedly assaulted and kidnapped by that same man, her now-deceased ex-boyfriend, by arguing that the plaintiff was a willing and “mutual combatant.”
PITTSBURGH – A local woman who alleged she was wrongfully arrested by the City of Pittsburgh’s police officers in connection with a stabbing due to mistaken identity, has settled her litigation.
Kevin L. Barley has joined Steptoe & Johnson’s Litigation Department as Of Counsel, where he will focus his practice on energy and business litigation.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman has reiterated allegations that a Western Pennsylvania property manager and landlord were negligent, and that those actions led her to suffer third-degree burns when she went to take a shower.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania property manager and landlord discount any claims of negligence filed against them by a Pittsburgh woman, who claimed that such actions led her to suffer third-degree burns when she went to take a shower.
PITTSBURGH – Parties involved in a lawsuit over whether the social media app Snapchat protected perpetrators using it to harass a pair of college students are arguing over the proper venue of the case.
PITTSBURGH – The manufacturer of the social media app Snapchat says a lawsuit brought against it by two college students who received personal threats to their safety should be removed to federal court, for jurisdictional and monetary reasons.
