PITTSBURGH – A police chief and one of his officers want to be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by a Vandergrift Borough Council member, alleging a conspiracy-based campaign of defamation and slander undertaken by a number of borough officials was intended to drive her out of office.
The following cases categorized as "securities/commodities" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on June 18. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PITTSBURGH – A housing community owner claims its neighbor’s construction caused nearly $250,000 in severe damage to retaining walls and surrounding property, and that the neighbor does not want to take responsibility for its actions.
MEDIA – A local hair salon disclaims responsibility for injuries that a Middletown man suffered, in the form of hair loss, skin discoloration and patching after a hair color and dye was applied to his scalp, alleging that L’Oreal is actually at fault.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Matthew Hopkins against Douglas V Reynolds, Harry M Hatfield, Keith F Molihan, Llyod G Jackson Ii, Marshall T Reynolds, Neal Scaggs, Peoples Bancorp Inc., Phillip E Cline, Premier Financial Bancorp Inc., Robert W. Walker, Thomas W Wright and Toney K Adkins on June 18.
PHILADELPHIA – A trio of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit bench have upheld the granting of summary judgment to the U.S. government in its second litigation against a farmer who allegedly violated the Clean Water Act, finding that defense counsel’s repeated procedural violations called for such a sanction.
PITTSBURGH – A senior citizen has brought suit against a Pittsburgh bank, which she claims failed to protect her and her sizable accounts from fraud and resulted in her losing millions of dollars to con artists.
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 has settled litigation with the West Elizabeth Sanitary Authority and other entities.
LANCASTER -- A woman claims suffering after a soda machine part that houses the ice allegedly crashed on top of her head and face, knocking her glasses off.
PITTSBURGH – Mount Pleasant’s former police chief says the Borough’s motion for summary judgment seeking to throw out his wrongful termination case, is ill-supported and its substance has no connection to the events that the complaint addresses.
SCRANTON – The Borough of Dalton is attempting to strike a $5.7 million judgment declared in favor of a local property owner – who claimed it committed ongoing misconduct and trespass in its refusal to provide catch basins for 21 years, which has caused her property to suffer tremendous flooding.
PITTSBURGH – Attorneys for a local equipment rental company have countered a man’s lawsuit alleging serious injuries from a defective scaffold leased to his employer, by arguing that the fault instead belongs to its co-defendants, a pair of Western Pennsylvania property owners.
The following cases categorized as "securities/commodities" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on May 11. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh spin class facility denies it was negligent in an action brought by a local woman who alleged her broken right ankle was the defendant’s failure to provide spin bicycle shoes with clips.
PITTSBURGH – For the third time, counsel for Dollar General and Aldi argue that allegations brought against them and other retailers which said they unlawfully charged sales taxes on the purchases of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic are unsupported, and should be dismissed.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by David Cech against Carol Gallagher, Carole Nuechterlein, Geoff Nichol, James Hindman, John P Howe Iii, Julia C Owens, Louis J Arcudi Iii, Mars Merger Corp., Millendo Therapeutics Inc. and Tempest Therapeutics Inc. on May 11.
PITTSBURGH – Due to the alleged expiration of a whistleblower claim’s statute of limitations, the Borough of Mount Pleasant is seeking summary judgment to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it wrongfully terminated its former police chief, for his pursuit to atone for alleged waste and wrongdoing committed by the municipal government.
The following cases categorized as "securities/commodities" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on May 4. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
