Recent News About Allegheny Township
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PITTSBURGH – The Grand Concourse restaurant in Pittsburgh countered that it is not responsible for injuries and damages suffered by a local man, when one of its servers dropped a tray of food on top of him during dinner on Christmas Eve in 2018.
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PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has granted motions to learn more about the identities of two individuals who were said to have provided a series of text messages between a Pittsburgh man and a young rowing club student painting him as an illicit sexual predator, and causing him to lose a job opportunity.
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PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple has launched litigation against a dance studio which hosted an event where the wife-plaintiff was seriously injured, after her leg came into contact with a rolling table cart.
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PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has granted Google’s request to dismiss a case brought against it by a Pittsburgh attorney, who attempted to compel the search giant to take down an unfavorable professional review about him, that he claimed was both fraudulent and from a person who doesn’t actually exist.
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PITTSBURGH – A Pennsylvania auto dealership has filed preliminary objections in a survival and wrongful death lawsuit brought against it and General Motors, after the plaintiff’s son was burned alive and killed in an accident.
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PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has ruled that the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s ban on its employees wearing face masks emblazoned with “Black Lives Matter” at work violates the First Amendment.
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PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man alleges that his Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is the result of many years of exposure to toxic substances in his work duties for the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad.
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PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh’s Water and Sewer Authority claims that a lawsuit from a pair of Pittsburgh landlord-tenant neighbors who alleged that it defectively designed and later failed to repair a deteriorating storm sewer culvert – which caused storm water runoff to flow into the plaintiffs’ residences – fails due to its lack of proper statement of allegations and its insufficiency.
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PITTSBURGH – The manufacturers of a dehumidifier that allegedly caused a fire leading to nearly $360,000 in damages, are rejecting claims made by the property owner’s insurance company that they are responsible for the event.
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The following cases categorized as "labor" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 12. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on Jan. 12 in the suits below:
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PITTSBURGH – A McDonald’s customer in Pittsburgh claims that the restaurant negligently permitted liquid to accumulate on its floor which he slipped and fell on, causing him to sustain serious injuries.
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PITTSBURGH – A defendant named in a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a man allegedly beaten and killed at a Munhall house party in 2015, argues he should be dismissed as a party to the case through summary judgment.
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PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman claims that she developed ovarian cancer after using talc-based personal hygiene products sold by the Giant Eagle supermarket chain, for more than half of her life.
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on Jan. 11 in the suits below:
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on Jan. 8 in the suits below:
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by M. E. Doutt and Scott Stanley against THE County of Allegheny on Jan. 12.
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Bailey Ziencik, Kelly Ziencik and Pasquale Wasson against Snap Inc. on Jan. 11.
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PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a steel slag processing facility accused in a class action lawsuit of releasing damaging, fugitive dust and air particulates onto the properties of local homeowners object to the action, arguing it is only based in private nuisance, and no other claims of trespass, public nuisance and negligence.
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PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man says a negligent lack of proper lighting led him to fall over a pair of retaining walls in his apartment parking lot, causing him to become seriously injured.
