MEDIA – A Philadelphia woman who claimed she was enjoying a friend’s birthday party at an Upper Darby tavern when she was shot by another patron of the establishment who had been allegedly over-served with alcohol during his stay, wants to amend her complaint and increase the number of defendants.
HARRISBURG – The Gap is looking to dismiss consolidated litigation alleging several Derry Township police officers committed wrongful arrest and process by profiling and taking into custody Black women shopping at the store for supposed theft, before later releasing them when it was learned that they had in fact committed no crime.
PHILADELPHIA – A local law firm that is looking to recover more than $229,000 in unpaid legal fees and costs that it incurred performing representation duties for a New Jersey couple in a federal bankruptcy action, has further bolstered its desire to see summary judgment granted in its favor.
MEDIA – The owners and operators of a Delaware County condominium complex reject cross-claim liability leveled against them by a local man who alleged that a fall his mother suffered on their property caused injuries and eventually her death.
LANCASTER – A security company for the Park City Mall has denied contributory liability for a shooting incident which occurred at the site last October, and then caused a pair of shoppers trampled in the ensuing panic to sue them and the mall itself.
PITTSBURGH – The University of Pittsburgh alleges that a Connecticut research group it had entered into a grant agreement with, has breached that contract for monies in excess of $84,000.
ERIE – A federal magistrate judge will allow the testimony of a physical rehabilitative specialist as to the alleged depression and anxiety felt by a plaintiff subsequent to being run over by a tractor-trailer.
PHILADELPHIA – A local attorney of more than four decades, who said he was fired from his role as a Delaware County public defender in 2020 due to his age and disability and after a stroke, has settled his claims with the County.
PHILADELPHIA – The Tredyffrin/Easttown School District and the secretary of its Board of Directors have denied allegations from a local parent that his First Amendment rights were violated when he attempted to inspect records of Critical Race Theory curriculum being taught.
MEDIA – After Ridley Township motioned for summary judgment in a case surrounding injuries suffered by a Woodlyn woman who claimed an accumulation of water on the sidewalk at her local public library caused her to fall onto her left knee, the plaintiff filed a brief opposing the granting of such judgment.
PITTSBURGH – An Ohio woman who filed wrongful death litigation against a Western Pennsylvania healthcare operation and the driver of a van who allegedly failed to secure her father’s wheelchair while in transit and drove recklessly, leading him to topple over and die from his injuries, is pursuing default judgment.
HARRISBURG – A coalition group of climate change activists wanting to participate in a mid-June rally in Harrisburg has sued the City, claiming it violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by forcing them to navigate an unduly burdensome and expensive permit process.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has sanctioned plaintiff counsel in an Easton couple’s product liability case against the Sherwin-Williams paint company, finding that said counsel was responsible for the dissemination of the company’s confidential trade secrets in filings associated with the case.
SCRANTON — A York County 911 supervisor claims she faced discrimination for being LGBTQ and was fired in retaliation for reporting the discrimination. Rebecca Conners filed a complaint April 18 in the U.S.
PHILADELPHIA — A shipyard worker alleges he faced racial discrimination by his coworkers and others and was fired in retaliation for filing a federal lawsuit.
