PHILADELPHIA – A pair of legal observers who attended a local protest after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis say they were attacked by police responding to the event and suffered a multitude of serious injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – Two separate companies named in a lawsuit filed by an election poll worker, which alleged she suffered a broken arm when she was asked to repair a faulty voting machine herself, mutually and steadfastly deny cross-claims levied against them by one of their co-defendants.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County continues to oppose the dismissal of arbitration proceedings and any payout of donated sick time to the estate of a former district attorney who passed away of cancer in 2019, charging that such a move would violate a collective bargaining agreement with the decedent’s union.
PITTSBURGH — A staffing agency worker assigned to a food distribution plant in Erie is claiming negligence after his arm allegedly became entangled in a mixing machine.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has nullified the statewide school mask mandate issued by Secretary of Health Alison Beam in September, aligning with a similar ruling from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania handed down last month and dealing a legal blow to the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf.
PHILADELPHIA – A former employee for East Bradford Township’s Public Works Department has responded to his former supervisor’s argument attempting to invalidate his retaliation and civil rights claims, by asserting a deposition he gave was protected speech and yet faced professional reprisal for it nonetheless.
PHILADELPHIA – A local man alleges an unnamed Philadelphia police officer committed a brutal assault against him during his participation in protests surrounding the Minneapolis killing of George Floyd last year, and that the City of Philadelphia is also liable for the excessive force he suffered in that incident.
MEDIA – A Philadelphia law firm and one of its Delaware County-based attorneys have launched a defamation and slander lawsuit against individuals the firm says falsely accused it of stealing money from its investors.
HARRISBURG – Medical professionals accused of negligence by a Virginia woman, who alleged her Erb’s Palsy and arm and shoulder injuries were the result of her being delivered in a hazardous and dangerous manner in a Pennsylvania hospital, have denied any responsibility for her injuries.
MEDIA – A Philadelphia woman claims she was enjoying a friend’s birthday party at an Upper Darby tavern, when she was shot by another patron of the establishment, who had been allegedly over-served with alcohol during his stay.
ALLENTOWN – The Reading Recreation Commission seeks to dismiss litigation that one of its former employees committed repeated acts of sexual abuse against a then-11-year-old girl, and that it both failed to stop the abuse from happening and violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights.
MEDIA – Crozer Health Care System defendants deny they committed negligence in missing the cancer diagnosis of a Delaware County woman’s now-deceased husband, arguing that the complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.
PITTSBURGH – A Carnegie man’s litigation against Uber, filed after he said he and his friends were nearly killed by their driver, has been remanded to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA — An American Airlines passenger alleges she suffered a concussion after a flight attendant dropped a piece of luggage from the overhead compartment onto her head. Toni Giordano filed a complaint Nov. 4 in the U.S.
PITTSBURGH – A local construction company felt its work on a parking garage to be built as part of Pittsburgh International Airport’s $1.4 billion modernization program would be in jeopardy due to its competitor trying to hire one of its high-level former employees, and reached a settlement in the matter after a brief litigation.
MEDIA – Crozer Health Care System steadfastly denies allegations that its medical professionals were negligent, in failing to diagnose cancer in the late husband of a Delaware County woman suing it for wrongful death in state court.
