PHILADELPHIA — A Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) officer is being accused of assaulting protestors at a protest following the death of George Floyd.
PHILADELPHIA — A parent alleges her minor daughter suffered injuries after Borough of Sharon Hill police officers fired shots into a crowd at a high school football game.
PHILADELPHIA — A former worker with the Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti Violence Network alleges her supervisor sexually harassed her and other female co-workers. Antoinette Harrison filed a complaint May 20 in the U.S.
PITTSBURGH – Three parents have filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania federal court, alleging their civil rights were violated when the Mount Lebanon School District provided classroom instruction to their first-grade children on the topics of gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning.
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 – In lieu of a halted intervention from the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office and related discovery issues, a federal judge has temporarily paused a malicious prosecution suit from one of two men who was accused of murdering six people and an unborn child in a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg in 2016.
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.
PHILADELPHIA – The proprietor of an adult store in Upper Merion Township is seeking to have a declaratory judgment issued that the township’s zoning codes and ordinances are unconstitutional, and thus, violated the plaintiff’s rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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.
PITTSBURGH – A health care company has filed preliminary objections to litigation alleging that an Allison Park plaintiff’s mother was the recipient of sub-standard care at her nursing facility, leading her to suffer a fall that caused a cut on her head, a broken neck and a broken hip, which caused severe pain and led to her death.
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.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that the United States government is immune from claims brought by a quartet of federal employees against it, for investment gains they said they would have received if the government made its retirement plan contributions on time during a 2018 shutdown.
