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Lawyers ask for $414K in Upper Darby parking ticket settlement

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PHILADELPHIA - Lawyers who took on Upper Darby's parking-ticket enforcement are asking for more than $400,000 from a settlement they call an "excellent result."
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Bill that keeps transgender athletes out of female sports passes Senate committee

By John O'Brien |
HARRISBURG - The Save Women's Sports Act, which would keep transgender females out of female sporting events and also provides new means to file lawsuits, has advanced out of a Pennsylvania legislative committee.
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$12M settlement in lawsuit over father-of-two's fatal fall

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PHILADELPHIA - The family of a 33-year-old man who fell to his death while working in a Pennsylvania mine has obtained a $12 million settlement with a cement company.
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Supreme Court says those with no biological link to child can show intent to be its parent

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has added a new way to become a parent, in a case concerning divorced lesbians who, now, share a child.
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States lose consumer protection claims in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

By John O'Brien |
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - The federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon won't let certain claims from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to continue.
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Inquirer data breach settlement finalized; $175K for lawyers

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PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge has given final approval to a $525,000 class action settlement in a lawsuit over a data breach at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Hockey tournament company can't be sued after player walks into duck sign at hotel

By John O'Brien |
PITTSBURGH - The organizer of youth hockey tournaments has defeated a lawsuit brought by a player injured at his hotel by a joke "Duck Crossing" sign.
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Harvard morgue manager, charged with selling body parts, says they aren't 'merchandise'

By John O'Brien |
WILLIAMSPORT - The criminal case of the former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School accused of selling pieces of dead bodies asks the question of whether human remains can be considered "goods."
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Lawmaker wants climate cost study, while Big Oil preps for big hearing in Bucks County case

By John O'Brien |
HARRISBURG - As the oil industry urges a Pennsylvania judge to toss a climate change lawsuit that Bucks County hopes will provide money for updates, one Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to commission a study on the costs associated with global warming.
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Three sex-trafficking victims settle lawsuits against hotels for $17.5M

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - Victims of sex-trafficking at Philadelphia hotels have won $17.5 million in settlements after filing suit in 2022.
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New Jersey agency can't be dragged into Pa. court, Supreme Court holds

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PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania isn't the place for a lawsuit against a New Jersey agency, the state Supreme Court recently ruled.
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Judge finds no sin in Villanova's firing of non-Catholic Black woman

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - Villanova University has defeated a discrimination lawsuit from a fired non-Catholic Black employee who, among her allegations, cried racism when discussing a painting it commissioned depicting Saint Augustine as Black.
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Hundreds of employees at TEKsystems grouped into four overtime pay class actions

By John O'Brien |
PITTSBURGH - A federal judge's ruling raises the stakes on a labor lawsuit against a global business and technology firm.
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Plaintiff lawyers want judge off Zantac cases, but wife's job-switch could stonewall effort

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia judge with a reputation for keeping "junk science" out of his court is resisting calls from plaintiff lawyers with questionable evidence in Zantac cases to step down.
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Man beaten, paralyzed in prison loses lawsuit against Philadelphia

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - The City of Philadelphia won't be penalized for a prison attack that left one man paralyzed.
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Columbia gas customers not on hook for the $300K it would cost to serve one customer

By John O'Brien |
HARRISBURG - A Fayette County funeral home is losing its natural gas as it tries to expand its operation to include a crematory and heat for available apartments on the property.
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'Historic' case over future of Pa. elections tossed

By John O'Brien |
HARRISBURG - A group hoping to show Pennsylvania does not properly handle federal elections has failed in federal court, as a magistrate judge has found its plaintiffs lack standing to file suit.
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Blowin' in the wind: Ex-PPD lieutenant accused of ignoring rape by detective can't ignore subpoena

By John O'Brien |
PHILADLPHIA - A former Philadelphia Police Department lieutenant can't rely on the wind to blow her problems away, a judge has ruled in lawsuits over a disgraced detective found guilty of rape and other crimes.
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Lackawanna Co. escapes liability for St. Patrick's Day assault on inmate

By John O'Brien |
SCRANTON - A man arrested for public intoxication then tossed around a jail cell during Scranton's St. Patrick's Day celebration in 2023 has lost his lawsuit against the Lackawanna County Sheriff's Department.
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Lab has 'whistleblower' settlement in place in Zantac case

By John O'Brien |
PHILADELPHIA - The product-testing lab whose research has created tens of thousands of lawsuits still works to settle a case it brought itself and received no support from the federal government and more than two dozen states refusing to participate.

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