PITTSBURGH — A Port Authority bus driver who was injured in the January 2022 Fern Hollow Bridge collapse claims the City of Pittsburgh knew the bridge was in poor condition. Daryl Luciani and Karen E.
PHILADELPHIA – The family of a mentally-ill man killed in a police-involved shooting in Plymouth Township have sued the municipality and ten of its police officers for survival and wrongful death.
PHILADELPHIA – Along with its co-defendant, CVS is seeking a confidential protective order in litigation filed by a Delaware County man, who alleged he suffered permanent vitiligo from using the products he purchased at one of its local pharmacy stores.
PITTSBURGH – Trinity Area School District is seeking more definitive statements in litigation brought by a 16-year-old student and girls basketball player at Trinity High School, who alleged she was subject to retaliation after reporting allegations of a sexual assault committed against another student by a member of the boys’ basketball team.
MEDIA – The Upper Darby Township Council is seeking a judgment in Delaware County court to declare its recent action to forfeit the office of the township’s Chief Administrative Officer as lawful.
HARRISBURG – Dollar Tree is seeking the plaintiffs’ medical records in litigation from a Harrisburg woman who claimed that her 13-year-old son was racially targeted by management at a local branch and falsely accused of shoplifting, nearly being arrested by police who responded to the scene.
PHILADELPHIA – A local assistant district attorney is seeking dismissal from a lawsuit brought by a woman who argued she was falsely arrested by Philadelphia authorities for firearms permit violations and later brought to trial, where she was ultimately found not guilty due to the fact that her permit was still active when she was taken into custody.
PITTSBURGH – A North Carolina woman alleges that the death of her father in tractor-trailer/train collision was the fault of the Norfolk Southern rail company and others, who allegedly failed to take proper safety measures that would have prevented the crash.
PHILADELPHIA – A prominent workers’ compensation law firm has vehemently denied it terminated a former employee for seeking accommodations during his bout with testicular cancer, and seeks to dismiss his claims, including those for punitive damages.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia man alleges he was the victim of an assault and battery by corrections officers, after visiting his girlfriend in custody at George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County.
PITTSBURGH – A local couple allege that the wife-plaintiff developed breast cancer after not being informed that a surgical scaffold used in her 2015 breast augmentation surgery was the subject of an FDA recall, 10 days after said surgery.
WILLIAMSPORT – After a settlement was completed in excessive force litigation brought by a prisoner currently in state custody against a number of corrections officials at SCI-Rockview, a federal judge ordered the case dismissed without prejudice.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court denied an application for stay pending certiorari in a federal lawsuit first brought in Allentown, concerning whether or not 257 Lehigh County ballots missing the date on their outer envelopes will be officially counted in last November’s general election.
MEDIA – A Lansdale woman who alleged that her local Big Lots store created and failed to repair a tripping hazard on its premises, which led to her falling and becoming seriously injured while she was shopping there, has settled her claims.
PHILADELPHIA – An associate at a drug treatment center has settled claims that his employer and its personnel violated public policy by retaliating against him for exercising his rights and making a good faith report of wrongdoing and waste.
