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HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has reversed a trial court injunction which initially prevented a Jewish family from erecting lawn signs in their backyard, signs which protested hostile and anti-Semitic behavior they experienced from their neighbors.
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PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man witnessed yelling about former President Donald Trump while listening to his car radio and stopped at an intersection last September, maintains that Millcreek Township police officers then appeared at his residence and unlawfully arrested him for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
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SCRANTON – The University of Scranton’s Faculty Affairs Council contends that the institution was right to fire a former professor, the latter of whom has charged that his constitutional rights to privacy and bodily autonomy were violated when the institution attempted to force him to disclose his COVID-19 vaccination status.
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SCRANTON – An activist who recently dismissed his constitutional challenge of the City of Williamsport’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, has now filed substantially-similar litigation against the City of Scranton.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal appellate court has affirmed a District Court decision which conferred class certification to plaintiffs enrolled in a retirement plan, who had alleged the company charged excessive record-keeping and administrative fees, and presented expensive investment options instead of more affordable alternatives.
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PITTSBURGH – A non-denominational religious group is ready to settle federal claims it made that a Pennsylvania law was allegedly used by state officials to declare that it may not solemnize legal marriages in the Commonwealth.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Colorado-based estate has finalized a settlement surrounding claims that the death of a Coatesville nursing care facility resident from an inter-cranial hemorrhage nearly three years ago was the result of negligent care on the part of the facility and its staff, for $150,000.
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Fox Rothschild Opens Boston Office With Addition of Life Sciences-Focused Intellectual Property Group.
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IP Litigator Caryn Borg-Breen, Ph.D., Joins Ballard Spahr.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Colorado-based estate is ready to settle claims that the death of a Coatesville nursing care facility resident from an inter-cranial hemorrhage nearly three years ago was the result of negligent care on the part of the facility and its staff, for $150,000.
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PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County officials have denied claims from a Seattle-based, non-denominational church that alleged those officials are misusing a Pennsylvania law to avoid solemnizing legal marriages in the Commonwealth.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied both the City of Philadelphia’s motion to dismiss and a motion for summary judgment from a street preacher locally known as “Philly Jesus”, who filed a wrongful prosecution case against it after being arrested when he was evangelizing in a public park just before Christmas in 2019.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Delaware County man who alleged his constitutional rights were violated when he was subjected to an illegal search and seizure during a traffic stop by a Darby Township police officer, has settled his claims.
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PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied the attempt of Allegheny County officials to dismiss litigation from a Seattle-based, non-denominational church that alleged those officials are misusing a Pennsylvania law to avoid solemnizing legal marriages in the Commonwealth.
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PITTSBURGH – A Whitehall Borough store owner who claimed that local policy towards skill machines and mechanical device licenses was being selectively enforced against him in violation of state and federal law, has dismissed his case.
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PITTSBURGH – Whitehall Borough claims that a local store owner’s lawsuit alleging that policy towards skill machines and mechanical device licenses is being selectively enforced against him in violation of state and federal law, is groundless and that his constitutional rights do not extend to being granted such a license.
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PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia seeks to once and for all dismiss litigation from a street preacher locally known as “Philly Jesus” who filed a wrongful prosecution case against it after being arrested when he was evangelizing in a public park just before Christmas in 2019.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Darby Township police officer has refuted accusations that he violated the constitutional rights of a Delaware County man by conducting an illegal traffic stop and search and seizure upon the plaintiff’s vehicle.
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PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh man who alleged he was assaulted by local police officers when he was walking back to his home from a trip to a convenience store alongside his brother in 2013, has settled his claims.
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PHILADELPHIA – A street preacher locally known as “Philly Jesus”, who filed a wrongful prosecution case against the City of Philadelphia after being arrested when he was evangelizing in a public park just before Christmas in 2019, wants to obtain the names of vendors who may have witnessed his arrest.
