PHILADELPHIA – Both the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services and Turning Points for Children deny liability for physical and emotional abuse a 19-year-old woman said she suffered during the time those entities placed her in a foster home as a child.
PHILADELPHIA – Just prior to answering claims from nearly 150 plaintiffs suing the City of Philadelphia for alleged excessive force used during peaceful demonstrations on systemic racism and police brutality at 52nd Street and the Vine Street Expressway last year, a federal judge has ordered the City provide a proposed matrix for the plaintiffs’ individual monetary award damages.
PITTSBURGH – General Motors has filed a motion to seal the terms of a settlement it entered into with a Penfield plaintiff whose son was burned alive and killed in an auto accident, and who represented the decedent in a subsequent survival and wrongful death lawsuit.
WASHINGTON – Seven members of the U.S. Capitol Police Department have sued former President Donald Trump, his campaign and a host of others, including Philadelphia-based Proud Boys President Zachary Rehl, alleging the former president conspired and cooperated with right-wing extremist groups to incite the infamous Jan. 6 siege on Congress at the U.S. Capitol Building.
PITTSBURGH – A corporation asserts it is not liable for damages pursued by a Beaver County couple, the husband of which was struck on the head by a falling metal pipe when he was at work as a sprinkler fitter.
PITTSBURGH – The manufacturer of an Instant Pot pressure cooking device which allegedly burned a two-year-old girl replies to litigation over the incident by counter-claiming that the child’s mother was instead responsible for her injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has approved a default judgment in excess of $300,000 in favor of a nonprofit alternative transportation company working toward tube travel, who attempted to recover monies it said that its former treasurer embezzled from it.
MEDIA – William Penn School District has cited governmental immunity as its argument for why multiple claims should be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by a Philadelphia woman, who was allegedly sexually abused by a security guard as a young student in the district.
PHILADELPHIA – A New Jersey cruise passenger who collided with another driver while under the influence of alcohol, after disembarking from a ship owned by a Chicago-based cruise line, now seeks to levy liability against the line for the injuries he suffered which have left him a quadriplegic.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple have reiterated their claims against an Illinois-based farmers market chain, after one of the plaintiffs struck a raised bumper and fell while shopping in a local store owned by the defendant.
WILLIAMSPORT – The City of Williamsport believes that it did not violate the constitutional rights of a political activist through its open-burning ordinance, which the plaintiff alleged had prevented his burning flags as a method of protest.
PITTSBURGH – An employee at the Nemacolin Wildlife Adventure exhibit who was mauled by a Himalayan Black Bear two years ago has filed legal action to recover damages for the litany of injuries she suffered in the bear attack.
PITTSBURGH – Deer Lakes School District contends that it did not violate the Criminal History Record Information Act when it denied a work opportunity to a substitute teacher when it was learned by the districts he had been arrested on one occasion 56 years ago.
For the ninth year running, Marshall Dennehey was selected by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the Philadelphia region's "Best Places to Work."
PITTSBURGH – Target Corporation is looking to dismiss punitive damages from litigation brought by the mother of a two-year-old girl burned by an allegedly faulty Instant Pot pressure cooking device.
PITTSBURGH – Dollar General and Aldi have scored a dismissal of a lawsuit which alleged that they and other retailers unlawfully charged sales taxes on the purchases of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Tom Wolf joined Sens. Vincent Hughes and Christine Tartaglione, House Democratic Leader Joanna McClinton and numerous House and Senate Democratic members, along with labor, religious and community leaders to call for an increase to Pennsylvania’s minimum wage.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a Pittsburgh bank has removed litigation brought by a senior citizen to federal court, a case which alleges the bank failed to protect her and her sizable accounts from fraud and resulted in her losing millions of dollars to con artists.
