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PITTSBURGH – Through its District Attorney Stephen Zappala, Allegheny County has filed suit against 10 different drug manufacturers, for damages connected to both the companies’ alleged false marketing of opioid drugs and the county’s combating the use and abuse of opioids.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Michael Taylor against Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. on Feb. 11.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on Feb. 2 in the suits below:
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Rudolph Golden against Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. on Feb. 2.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on Jan. 5 in the suits below:
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Joann Long against Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. on Jan. 5.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge’s ruling has altered the terms by which negligence can be pled in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a child who alleged medical malpractice in requiring their son to have emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles, but has also denied some of the case’s medical defendants the chance to escape punitive damages.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on Dec. 2 in the suits below:
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Ouida E. Gregory against Mckesson Corp., Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. on Dec. 2.
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SCRANTON – CVS Pharmacy is seeking to dismiss the strict liability claim brought forward by a Northeastern Pennsylvania man, who alleged he contracted septic arthritis and a number of other injuries after receiving a Pneumovax vaccine from a store location in East Stroudsburg.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on Oct. 20 in the suits below:
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Joan F Boyle against Mckesson Corp., Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. on Oct. 20.
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SCRANTON – A Northeastern Pennsylvania man alleges he contracted septic arthritis and a number of other injuries after receiving a Pneumovax vaccine from a CVS Pharmacy location in East Stroudsburg.
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PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reversed a judicial order that forced two pharmaceutical companies to pay $448 million in penalties, for attempting to keep generic-brand versions of their testosterone replacement therapy drug AndroGel off the market, and for creating a monopoly.
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PHILADELPHIA – In a lawsuit brought by the parents of a child who alleged medical malpractice in requiring their son to have emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles, hospital defendants say a negligence claim wasn’t properly pled.
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PHILADELPHIA – A class action lawsuit over a profit-sharing plan between employees and American Airlines Group has been stayed by a federal judge, pending a decision in a separate, but related action.
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McGuireWoods had 195 attorneys from the firm’s U.S. offices selected for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 15 of whom were named Lawyers of the Year, an honor given to only one lawyer in each practice area per city.
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PHILADELPHIA – A group of plaintiffs that sued the City of Philadelphia alleging it failed to maintain its sidewalks to provide proper access to disabled citizens in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is pushing for judgment in the matter in order to appeal the judge’s dismissal of their case.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has sided with the City of Philadelphia that an allegation it failed to maintain its sidewalks to provide proper access to disabled citizens in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, does not constitute denial of access to a City program – while at the same, certifying the litigation as a class action.
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PHILADELPHIA – An anesthesiologist who filed an age-based employment discrimination lawsuit against the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will not have the ability to pursue punitive damages, per decision of a federal judge.
