ALLENTOWN – Sunbeam Products has settled a personal injury lawsuit brought by a Berks County plaintiff, which claimed she was severely burned by a home heating pad it manufactured.
PHILADELPHIA – Strip club owners in five states, including Pennsylvania, have sued the U.S. Small Business Administration in federal court, claiming the SBA’s moral judgment about their businesses violated their constitutional rights and caused them to be deprived of receiving loans issued to restaurant and nightlife owners adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
ALLENTOWN – An office manager of Hispanic origin says she and a fellow co-worker were discriminated against by a Philadelphia law firm because of their ethnic background and when she spoke out against the unfair treatment, she was fired.
ALLENTOWN – A Lancaster man alleges that he was unlawfully assaulted, battered and tased with deadly force, without justification and in violation of his civil rights by local police officers in 2019.
ALLENTOWN – Defendants in a lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania man who fell off a ladder on the job and sustained a litany of serious injuries, seeking product liability-related damages, have countered that the suit is groundless.
ALLENTOWN – A federal court lawsuit alleges that the Salisbury Township School District denied two minor students equal access to its public schools, instead of their being entitled to immediate enrollment in the district where they were enrolled at the time they became homeless, under federal law.
PHILADELPHIA – An antitrust lawsuit filed against Facebook and other media entities by the members of an online group promoting Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, has been transferred to a federal court in Northern California.
PHILADELPHIA – 16 people who developed cancer, some of them fatally, and their families have brought suit against German medical device manufacturer B. Braun, alleging that emissions of a carcinogenic gas named ethylene oxide (EtO) from the company’s plant in Hanover Township led to their illnesses.
ALLENTOWN – Bethlehem Area School District is attempting to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the parents of a six-year-old child, who the suit claims was repeatedly bullied and sexually assaulted on the school bus and the district didn’t prevent the abuse.
ALLENTOWN – Litigation from a man maimed by a commercial food processing machine against the corporations responsible for manufacturing and marketing the device, has been settled.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has denied the Easton Area School District’s attempt to dismiss counts from a lawsuit filed by an ex-varsity high school wrestling coach who alleged he faced discriminatory and racist conduct, including being fired, because he is Black.
ALLENTOWN – A settlement has been preliminarily approved in a class action brought by a local couple against the makers of Purina pet food, who said odors from their Allentown processing plant have substantially and negatively impacted their quality of life.
With the deadline for filing federal individual income tax returns having been extended to May 17th, 2021, and taxpayers now preparing to file their tax returns, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Field Office, IRS Criminal Investigation Division, jointly announced a warning to those who are thinking about breaking the law by committing tax crimes.
ALLENTOWN – Lancaster County argues it should be dismissed from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a local woman, who witnessed her schizophrenic and bipolar son being shot to death by a local police officer.
ALLENTOWN – Sherwin-Williams has been partially granted an order to protect the dissemination of its confidential trade secrets in litigation brought by an Easton couple, who say they used one of its deck sealing products to stain their deck, before the product supposedly self-heated and caused a fire on their property.
PITTSBURGH – Five ex-volunteer firefighters in the City of Latrobe have reiterated claims they were ousted from their positions after voicing opposition to the alleged behavior of the department chief, in response to claims from the City and its mayor that the plaintiffs failed to establish their liability.
The following cases categorized as "contract" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 15. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
MEDIA – A New Jersey auctioneer maintains it is not responsible for injuries suffered by a Delaware County man who was hit with debris from a wood chipper and then sued the companies who sold him the device.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Alex Wright and THE Riverview Lofts Allentown LLC against Benchmark Civil Engineering Services Inc. and Bernard M. Telatovich. P.e. on Jan. 15.
