A husband and wife have filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claiming that members of the Darby police department severely beat them prior to taking them into custody on charges that were later dropped.
A federal lawsuit has been filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the driver of a delivery truck and his employers,
Two subcontractors doing work for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, and the transit agency itself, have been named as defendants in a slip-and-fall suit initiated by a Delaware County woman who claims she injured her leg after tripping on a piece of sidewalk that was under repair.
A Philadelphia man is suing a fast food eatery and its manager over claims that restaurant worker struck the plaintiff with a pot, causing the customer to sustain various physical injuries that required medical attention.
A man who lives in Philadelphia but is employed by a school district in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against his tax preparers, alleging the accountants failed to inform him he had to pay an earnings tax to the City of Philadelphia, an oversight that has caused the plaintiff to rack up more than $20,000 in interest and penalty fees relating to the tax nonpayment.
A federal judge sitting in Philadelphia last week granted a motion by a plaintiff in a slip-and-fall suit to remand the matter back to state court despite arguments by the defendant that the litigation should play out in a federal jurisdiction.
