MEDIA – A Philadelphia woman who was shot by another patron of an Upper Darby tavern after attending a birthday party, has secured a default judgment against the establishment where the altercation took place.
PHILADELPHIA — A consumer claims a defective safety measure on a pressure cooker caused her to suffer serious burns. Amber Durham filed a complaint Dec. 10 in the U.S.
PITTSBURGH — A former Pennsylvania Department of Corrections officer claims she suffered sexual harassment from her male co-workers. Kristy Lamber filed a complaint Dec. 7 in the U.S.
HARRISBURG – A few weeks after throwing out the statewide school mask mandate issued by now-former Secretary of Health Alison Beam in September, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania released its rationale for doing so.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied summary judgment to Delaware County in a case brought forward by a former county attorney of more than 40 years who returned to his duties as a public defender after suffering a stroke, and alleged he was fired from his role this year due to his age and disability.
HARRISBURG – Per a Dec. 30 ruling from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, former agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto has lost the majority of its preliminary objections to litigation brought against it by the state, connected to natural resources damages allegedly caused by the company’s chemical compounds.
MEDIA – A state court judge has overruled William Penn School District’s preliminary objections which cited governmental immunity as an 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 – 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.
PITTSBURGH — A Butler auto dealership and Ford Motor Company are facing a lawsuit after a man allegedly suffered a severe laceration from a sharp metal edge on the frame of an F150 seat.
PITTSBURGH – Antonio Brown’s accomplishments in the National Football League add up to quite a list, as do his off- and on-field incidents that have marred his stints in Pittsburgh, Oakland, New England and Tampa Bay.
PITTSBURGH – Litigation accusing a physical therapy firm accused of not using personal protective equipment and leading a Bethel Park couple to contract COVID-19 has left federal jurisdiction and been remanded to an Allegheny County court.
PITTSBURGH – A pair of Pittsburgh homeowners continue to discount liability for injuries that a local man suffered, when an oak tree on the defendants’ lawn collapsed and fell on him during his run.
PHILADELPHIA — The manufacturer of a cap-lining machine has been sued, as a man alleges he suffered serious injuries to his hand due to a defective design.
PITTSBURGH – Summary judgment motions will soon be filed in a lawsuit filed by a trio of professional athletes and the players’ associations of Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the National Hockey League – all of whom allege that the City of Pittsburgh’s “jock tax” that is applied to both resident and non-resident athletes is unconstitutional.
PITTSBURGH – A West Virginia insurer who alleged that possible collusion between the defendants in an underlying lawsuit relating to coverage upon a fatal accident was attempting to perpetrate a fraud upon the company, has discontinued its case.
PITTSBURGH — An African American female alleges she was asked to carry the superintendent's shopping bags and assigned other remedial tasks while working for the Clayton City School District.
