The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on April 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
SCRANTON – A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed against the Pike County District Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania State Police, from the parents of a man who committed a murderous attack against a state police barracks in 2014, for what they feel was an unlawful seizure of their cache of firearms.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania property manager and landlord discount any claims of negligence filed against them by a Pittsburgh woman, who claimed that such actions led her to suffer third-degree burns when she went to take a shower.
SCRANTON – Lackawanna County medical defendants bring a trio of objections pertaining to both venue and pleading to a lawsuit brought by a local couple, which alleged that the severe bleeding and carotid artery damage the wife-plaintiff suffered was the result of a botched artery repair procedure.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia investment firm and others accused of defrauding a Montgomery County man in a home equity loan transaction totaling more than $200,000, have had a default judgment entered against them.
SCRANTON – A civil rights and discrimination lawsuit brought against York County Prison and several of its correctional officials by a formerly incarcerated man of Middle Eastern heritage is now in flux after the plaintiff, who had been reported missing, was recently found dead.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on April 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
A federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Delaware County, the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center and the Child Guidance Resource Center alleges child abuse and assault.
The following cases categorized as "labor" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on April 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "labor" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on April 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "insurance" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on April 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The following cases categorized as "contract" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on April 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
ALLENTOWN – A settlement has been preliminarily approved in a class action brought by a local couple against the makers of Purina pet food, who said odors from their Allentown processing plant have substantially and negatively impacted their quality of life.
MEDIA – A Montgomery County plaintiff who alleged that his concussion and spinal injuries were the fault of his chair at a local casino’s poker table, has withdrawn his lawsuit against the casino in question.
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia City Council member Mark Squilla and local Italian-American groups have filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia and Mayor Jim Kenney, over Kenney’s removal of Columbus Day as an observed city holiday and other incidents the suit says speak to his prejudice for Italian-Americans.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man has reiterated claims that his Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is the result of many years of exposure to toxic substances in his work duties for the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Keith Jackson against Bayview Loan Servicing and Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing on April 23.
