PHILADELPHIA – A federal court ruled Tuesday that a Delaware woman suing her former hospital for race discrimination and retaliation has sufficiently alleged facts for her case to proceed. Lillian Polk, an African-American phlebotomist (a person trained to draw blood from medical patients), filed suit in April against Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville for alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tied to race discrimination and retaliation, in connection with her terminat
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia federal judge has granted the default judgment motion of two California-based produce companies against a former Philadelphia market store and one of its owners who did not respond to the plaintiffs’ claims for outstanding payments due them.
PHILADELPHIA – On April 14, Comcast Corp. settled a class action lawsuit alleging the cable giant violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when it failed to pay overtime wages to a large number of employees at its Horsham location.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia woman’s lawsuit against the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and four of its doctors, alleging they caused her then-six-and-a-half-month-old son to contract meningitis and suffer brain damage, will have a Frye hearing to determine the admissibility of medical evidence on Wednesday morning.
PHILADELPHIA – A November 2013 decision granting summary judgment to the City of Philadelphia and two Philadelphia police officers accused of preventing life-saving medical treatment was recently upheld.
A Virgin Islands company is suing Carnegie Mellon University, alleging failure to pay for services used to establish a university program in the Russian province of Tartarstan.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A Kern County, Calif., man brought a class action lawsuit against a Tennessee manufacturer on Wednesday for allegedly defective heating and air conditioning products.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Four complaints that accuse asbestos law firms of racketeering were recently unsealed, providing a glimpse into information a federal bankruptcy judge likely relied on when he found those firms have committed “a startling pattern of misrepresentation” through the years.
A man who was fired from his job as a system administrator at an information technology firm in southeastern Pennsylvania has filed a federal complaint against the company, alleging his termination after three years of employment was retaliatory for him taking occasional medical leave to treat his ailments.
The parents of two minor children injured in a car accident have filed a personal injury suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas against an FBI agent involved in the accident and the driver transporting the kids.
The owner of a Lehigh County contracting company seeks more than $1 million in relief from the city of Allentown and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, claiming sexual discrimination prevented her from receiving fair market value when her Allentown office was acquired through eminent domain, according to a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The family of a man electrocuted while working on a home improvement project has filed a suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas against the contractors that hired him and the owners of the home where the accident occurred.
Comcast Corp. is facing a class action lawsuit alleging the cable giant violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when it failed to pay overtime wages to a large number of employees at its Horsham, Pa. location.
A federal judge has granted a defense motion for summary judgment in a case brought by the mother of a teenager who claims her daughter died because Philadelphia police prevented the plaintiff from taking the girl for medical care.
