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Amputee fired for calling manager 'scumbag' on Facebook loses discrimination case

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HARRISBURG - A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation worker fired over a Facebook post complaining about his manager has lost his discrimination lawsuit.
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Changes from 2023 didn't take Roundup plaintiffs' 'shaky' causation experts

By John O'Brien |
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Experts once called "shaky" by the federal judge hearing thousands of Roundup cases can continue to testify, as the latest wave of plaintiffs make their way through a multidistrict litigation proceeding.
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Wrongful death case against Philadelphia survives dismissal motion

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - The City of Philadelphia has lost its attempt to toss out of court a lawsuit that alleges police left a one-legged man to die in jail.
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Skier struck by snowboard loses lawsuit against Blue Mountain

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - For the second time in a month, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled for a ski resort sued by an injured customer, citing a state law that "for better or worse," protects defendants.
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Settlement reached in case of man left dying on Greyhound bus

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - It's an $85,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought over a man who suffered cardiac arrest on a Greyhound bus and later died.
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Pa. court sides with med-mal lawyers, draws line on if doctor picked surgery for patient

By John O'Brien |
HARRISBURG - A state appeals court has revived a medical malpractice lawsuit against Geisinger Medical Center, in a win for Pennsylvania's plaintiff lawyers.
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Roofers, check your ladders; Court rules against worker who fell off one placed on a block

By John O'Brien |
PITTSBURGH - A roofer should have known better, a Pennsylvania appeals court has ruled, finding that a ladder placed on a wooden block is an obviously dangerous condition.
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Domino's decision a win for Pa. plaintiff lawyers, though other states have reached the opposite conclusion

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - A recent decision by a Pennsylvania appellate judges not only goes against an earlier ruling by their own court but also at least six others.
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Domino's too controlling over franchisee, must pay for its $2.3M mistake

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - Domino's Pizza has lost its effort to avoid paying its slice of a $2.3 million verdict to a man whose leg was amputated after a traffic accident involving a pizza deliveryman.
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Lawyers supporting J&J's $9B talc settlement seek protection from rival firms

By John O'Brien |
HOUSTON - Law firms that want Johnson & Johnson's massive talc bankruptcy plan approved object to the nature of a probe by lawyers who want it rejected, as the fight for votes continues ahead of a key hearing.
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Pa. company loses $7M appeal for not paying travel time

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania home health care company has lost its appeal of a $7 million ruling that found it should have paid its employees for the time they spent driving to clients' homes.
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Greene County PD shows little fight in abuse-of-power lawsuit

By John O'Brien |
PITTSBURGH - Arrested 911 employees in Greene County will get to advance their claims in court against a police department that didn't even fill up two pages in its own defense.
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Judge: No racism in firing reckless driver

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PITTSBURGH - A Black truck driver has lost his racism claim against the company that fired him over reports he was speeding with unsecured items on his trailer.
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Hey PA: 5 new cases to know, including gender issues in high school sports

By John O'Brien |
A high-school girl complains she was forced to race against a biological male, a conspiracy lawsuit against the food industry and an NFC championship celebration goes wrong are among five new cases of interest in Pennsylvania.
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Value of Dwayne Haskins wrongful death case discovered; Family and widow continue legal war

By John O'Brien |
PITTSBURGH - With the wrongful death lawsuit brought on behalf of former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins coming to a close, a federal judge has refused to silence any concerns his widow has with a documentary planned by his parents.
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Feds, lawyers and insurers among critics of J&J's massive talc settlement

By John O'Brien |
HOUSTON - Some insurers and personal injury lawyers have found themselves in a rare position - allied in court.
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Justice Wecht thinks Supreme Court is rewriting state law to benefit asbestos plaintiffs

By John O'Brien |
PITTSBURGH - Asbestos lawsuits keep giving Pennsylvania's highest court the chance to put its own policies in place by ignoring laws passed by the legislature, a Supreme Court justice wrote last week.
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Supreme Court: Pa. law can't stop asbestos lawsuits against employers; Two dissent, ruing Tooey

By John O'Brien |
PITTSBURGH - A state workplace injury law that gives employees four years to sue over exposure to dangerous materials doesn't stop plaintiffs with asbestos-related diseases that developed long after that timeframe from going to court.
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Judge, jurors wearing Big Bird heads reject the case of the racist Elmo

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge won't change a jury's finding that Black individuals weren't discriminated against at SeaWorld's Sesame Place Philadelphia, in a case that alleged characters like Elmo ignored them and had jurors wearing a Big Bird head.
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Talc lawyers fighting J&J's $9B plan get to grill lawyer holding 1,500 key votes

By John O'Brien |
HOUSTON - A court-ordered deposition of a lawyer next week should produce plenty of fireworks, as he explains why 1,500 of his clients suing Johnson & Johnson changed their minds on whether to accept the company's massive settlement proposal.

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