PITTSBURGH – A Lyft driver accused of shooting a 55-year-old man to death in August 2022 in the parking lot of a Sheetz convenience store has claimed that his actions were only taken in self-defense.
SCRANTON – A Hanover Township man maintains claims that his daughter was mistreated and neglected by her softball coach, leading her to eventually suffer a severe brain injury when a batted ball hit her in the back of the head, and argues the defendant school district’s motion to dismiss must be denied.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for an ex-constituent services worker for state Sen. Anthony Williams who claims she was fired before Christmas in 2018 and after contracting breast cancer, has lodged objections to what they feel are defense counsel’s maneuvers to drag out the case.
PHILADELPHIA — A former employee of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas claims he was wrongfully terminated over false assault claims by a female coworker.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for an ex-constituent services worker for state Sen. Anthony Williams who claimed she was fired before Christmas in 2018 after contracting breast cancer objects to the senator’s recent disclosure of a new witness in the case.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for state Sen. Anthony Williams is seeking summary judgment in a case brought against him by an ex-constituent services worker, who claimed she was fired before Christmas in 2018 after contracting breast cancer.
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has discontinued litigation and all related investigations concerning alleged violations of the City of Pittsburgh’s now-expired temporary eviction moratorium ordinance, just weeks after a similar measure from the Center for Disease Control also expired.
PITTSBURGH – An Allison Park man has reached a settlement for negligence claims with a Western Pennsylvania management company, connected to his fall over a pair of retaining walls in an apartment parking lot owned and operated by the defendants.
PITTSBURGH – On the eve of the Center for Disease Control’s eviction moratorium order’s expiration, a landlord advocacy group is seeking an injunction to stay any formal action related to the City of Pittsburgh’s temporary eviction measure enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic – until its pending lawsuit against both the City and its City Council is resolved.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania management company has been dismissed from the lawsuit of a tenant who had sued it for negligence, connected to their fall over a pair of retaining walls in their apartment parking lot.
PHILADELPHIA – A judge has dismissed without prejudice a claim for alleged violation of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act in a case brought by an ex-constituent services worker for state Sen. Anthony Williams, who claimed she was fired before Christmas in 2018 after contracting breast cancer.
PHILADELPHIA – An interim Director of Facilities for the Chichester School District has denied that he discriminated against the permanent holder of that position for his race and medical condition, before the latter was fired.
PHILADELPHIA – Contrary to litigation filed in April, Delaware County school officials have denied that they discriminated against a facilities director for his race and medical condition before firing him.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the Commonwealth cannot dodge liability through the real estate exception to sovereign immunity, in cases where its negligent design and construction created a defective and dangerous condition, and later caused injury.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania landlord counters that a tenant suing it for negligence connected to his fall over a pair of retaining walls in his apartment parking lot, is solely responsible for his own injuries.
PITTSBURGH – A landlord advocacy group has brought suit against the City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh City Council, claiming that the City has violated its Home Rule Charter and the state constitution, in its implementation of a temporary eviction measure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PITTSBURGH – A North Huntingdon man has settled claims with a Monroeville woman for third-degree burns he allegedly suffered on various parts of his body, during a grease fire at her home last year.
PHILADELPHIA – A former public safety officer and hall monitor who alleged race and religion-based discrimination claims against a Delaware County school district has settled his case.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has opted to remand a medical malpractice wrongful death and survival action to the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, after finding the defendants did not file to remove the matter to federal court in a timely fashion.
PHILADELPHIA – A Delaware County school district denies claims brought by a former public safety officer and hall monitor that it discriminated against him based upon his race and religion, saying instead he resigned from his duties.
