PHILADELPHIA – Airbnb is seeking to dismiss or stay all proceedings in the case of a South Philly landlord whose property sustained extensive damages in 2020, allegedly from a renter-turned-squatter who then subletted the residential space.
PITTSBURGH – The George Junior Republic rehabilitation and treatment center has argued that a man accusing its staff of sexually abusing him when he was just 16 years old, has not properly or sufficiently pled his claims under the law.
PHILADELPHIA – A South Philly landlord alleges that a man who rented out his residence through an Airbnb listing became a squatter and pseudo-landlord himself and did tremendous damage to the property for three months in 2020, and is now suing the company to recoup those costs.
SCRANTON – A federal judge has authorized a stay in litigation over the City of Pottsville’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, pitting a political activist who says he was wrongfully arrested for engaging in such activity against the City.
MEDIA – A Delaware County judge has overruled preliminary objections from Crozer Health defendants, who are charged with negligence and tortious interference with a corpse and invasion of privacy after the plaintiff’s mother was embalmed and cremated, despite her express wishes.
SCRANTON – An activist litigating with the City of Pottsville’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, is seeking a stay of the instant case, now that his criminal conviction for the suit’s subject incident has been overturned by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
PITTSBURGH – A Pennsylvania teenager’s lawsuit against Facebook and Instagram that holds the social media apps responsible for the development of her eating disorder and related self-harm, has been transferred to a federal court in California.
PHILADELPHIA – A group of plaintiffs has appealed the denial of a preliminary injunction in their class action litigation, which claimed their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s discriminatory policies centered on race, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
SCRANTON – An activist who recently dismissed his constitutional challenge of the City of Williamsport’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, has now filed substantially-similar litigation against the City of Scranton.
MEDIA — A couple allege the wife suffered serious injuries after falling and striking her head while a patient at Crozer Chester Medical Center. Maggie L.
LANCASTER – The former Superintendent of Manheim Township School District claims he was the subject of baseless allegations of gender and age-based harassment leveled against him by other employees of the District.
PHILADELPHIA – A trio of Philadelphia parents who brought a class action lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia and numerous officials in its employ, charging that their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s allegedly discriminatory policies centered on race, are now seeking an injunction to prevent such policies from continuing to be enforced.
MEDIA – Counsel for a Delaware County hospital are seeking to strike allegations of recklessness and claims for punitive damages from a Georgia woman’s lawsuit, brought after the hospital and its personnel were said to have failed to diagnose and monitor her late husband’s medical condition, which led to him passing away from cardiac arrest soon after his discharge.
MEDIA – One company has been dismissed from litigation which claimed that a number of Delaware County health care entities improperly administered an epidural injection to a pregnant woman and caused her death.
MEDIA – A Chester man alleges that his mother’s body was transferred from a local hospital, embalmed and cremated without his knowledge or consent, despite the fact that he was the listed next-of-kin and should have been consulted about any such decision.
PHILADELPHIA – A trio of Philadelphia parents have brought a class action lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia and numerous officials in its employ, charging that their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s allegedly discriminatory policies centered on race.
MEDIA – A Georgia woman’s lawsuit claims that a Delaware County hospital and its personnel failed to diagnose and monitor her late husband’s medical condition, which led to him passing away from cardiac arrest soon after his discharge.
PITTSBURGH – A U.S. Navy veteran who alleged that sub-standard care he received at his local Veterans Affairs hospital resulted in his suffering permanent vision loss and damage, is settling his claims with the federal government.
WILLIAMSPORT – A former All-American member of Penn State University’s women’s fencing team has filed Title IX litigation against her former head coach, alleging she was subjected to physical, psychological and verbal abuse which derailed her hopes to become a nationally renowned Olympic fencer.
