PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman’s lawsuit against her insurance company for alleged refusal to reimburse her for costs sustained after a broken valve damaged her property has been removed to federal court.
SCRANTON – A federal court venue remains to be determined for a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company litigating over a suit concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of his wife.
PITTSBURGH – A wrongful termination suit from a man who claims he was fired from a water and sewer authority when he refused to dump raw sewage into the Monongahela River is the burden of the West Elizabeth Sanitary Authority, according to Union Township.
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.
PITTSBURGH – A woodworker from Northwestern Pennsylvania says defective electric tools that he used in the course of his job led him to suffer amputation of two fingers on his right hand.
PITTSBURGH – The Borough of Mount Pleasant denies it wrongfully terminated its former police chief after his pursuit to correct alleged waste and wrongdoing being committed by municipal government.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Nov. 25. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by American Platinum Property and Casualty Insurance Company and Dolly Marshall against Amazon. Co. Inc., HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company on Nov. 25.
WILLIAMSPORT – Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s campaign are seeking permission to file a second amended version of a lawsuit that alleges unfair and unconstitutional election procedures in Pennsylvania caused the president to lose the state in the 2020 Presidential Election.
PITTSBURGH – A trio of class action lawsuits allege that a wide variety of retailers have been unlawfully charging sales tax on the purchases of face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
PHILADELPHIA – According to a federal judge’s ruling, a pair of female Philadelphia police officers who claim they were the longtime targets of harassment and discrimination will be permitted to examine documents relating to investigation of sexual harassment complaints within the Philadelphia Police Department.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Oct. 30. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PITTSBURGH – The case of a Western Pennsylvania woman who alleged her broken left leg and left arm were the fault of a defective shopping cart, will now be heard in a federal court.
PHILADELPHIA – A vet technician who suffers from several mental health-related conditions says her employer created a hostile work environment by refusing to accommodate her medical issues and later terminating her.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh non-profit denies that it passed over giving a Creative Arts Manager position to an older, African-American employee for reasons of age and race, in favor of a younger, white employee.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Joann Marson against Yesenia Zavala on Oct. 30.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has now twice ruled that a pair of female Philadelphia police officers who claim they were the longtime targets of harassment and discrimination will not be permitted to depose Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for Scott Township and one of its commissioners say that claims from a Western Pennsylvania real estate company, its owner and his sister-in-law in a disability discrimination lawsuit filed against them have not been pled satisfactorily for the case to proceed.
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