PHILADELPHIA — A golfer who suffered injuries when her golf cart overturned at a golf club in Malvern is claiming the course was negligently designed and maintained.
PHILADELPHIA — A woman is alleging the City of Philadelphia and others' negligence after she suffered injuries from a broken sidewalk outside a U.S Post Office building.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania will hear oral arguments on the statewide school mask mandate on Dec. 8, pitting opponents of the mandate including a Republican gubernatorial candidate and Senate President pro tempore, versus the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf.
HARRISBURG – A food processing company seeks to dismiss litigation brought against it by a Pennsylvania waterway environmental group that charges it with having polluted Oil Creek and the Susquehanna River and violating the state Clean Streams Law and the federal Clean Water Act in the process.
PITTSBURGH — An American Airlines worker alleges he faced discrimination and retaliation because he is Hispanic. Lenin Rodriguez filed a complaint Nov. 2 in the U.S.
MEDIA – In litigation from a Delaware County woman against her former doctor, a pharmacist and their pharmacy – which alleged their reckless negligence of prescribing large amounts of opioid medication led to the death of her husband – plaintiff counsel is seeking documents which detail the volume of opioids prescribed to customers over a five-year period.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a local rehabilitation center for delinquent youth believes that sexual assault litigation filed against their clients by a Western Pennsylvania man should be transferred to a Forest County court.
PITTSBURGH - John Conners filed a federal complaint on October 21 in the Western District of Pennsylvania against the City of Pittsburgh and unknown police officers for excessive force, false arrest, malicious prosecution, retaliation and other claims.
PITTSBURGH — Construction workers on the Pennsylvania Petrochemical Complex, known as the Shell Cracker Plant, in the western part of the state are claiming they did not receive overtime pay.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has unanimously ruled that venue standards for defamation established more than half a century ago continue to hold up, despite the quantum leaps of technological change which have taken place during that time.
PITTSBURGH – Uber’s attempt to dismiss litigation from a Carnegie man who said that he and his friends were nearly killed by their driver has been defeated, for now, by a federal judge’s ruling.
MEDIA – A Havertown urgent care facility recently sought a judgment of non pros in a wrongful death action accusing it of failing to diagnose a woman’s pneumonia, later causing her to die of the condition in December 2019.
PHILADELPHIA - Mark Fosbenner filed a federal complaint on October 22 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Sugarhouse HSP Gaming Prop, GP, LLC d/b/a Rivers Casino Philadelphia f/k/a Sugarhouse Casino for discrimination and retaliation.
PITTSBURGH – The United Steelworkers union is continuing in its attempt to vacate and dismiss arbitration proceedings, which sought to obtain sick pay benefits for a former assistant district attorney who passed away of cancer in 2019.
ALLENTOWN – The former director of dining services at a Lancaster retirement home community has prevailed in her wrongful termination-related disability lawsuit, winning a judgment of $812,036.
ALLENTOWN – A federal lawsuit alleges that a now-incarcerated ex-employee of the Reading Recreation Commission committed multiple acts of sexual abuse and molestation against a then-11-year-old girl, and that the organization both failed to stop the abuse from happening and violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights.
MEDIA – A group of Delaware County neighbors who had alleged that an adjacent contractor’s materials-crushing operations were creating a private and public nuisance and violating a local township ordinance for noise and air quality, now has two less plaintiffs to oppose that contractor in court.
PITTSBURGH – A physical therapy firm accused of not using personal protective equipment and leading a Bethel Park couple to contract COVID-19 has cited a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in support of its efforts to dismiss the plaintiffs’ case.
