PHILADELPHIA – A federal court ruled that the ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin will continue, defeating a lawsuit brought by state Senate Republicans seeking to overturn it and handing down a decision which state Senate Democrats hail as an environmental victory.
SCRANTON – A New York man has sued a whitewater rafting company for negligent infliction of emotional distress, after witnessing his brother drown during a rafting trip on the Lehigh River two years ago.
A Carbon County, Pa., man has filed a class action suit at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against soft drink giant Coca-Cola and its regional distribution subsidiaries on behalf of an estimated 70,000 people whose information and identities have been allegedly compromised by the theft of 55 laptops from the company's Atlanta headquarters over a six year period.