PHILADELPHIA – Defendants have won a motion to transfer venue to a federal court in Western Pennsylvania, in wrongful death litigation brought by the estate of a young man killed when an allegedly faulty gate at a landfill dropped onto his car.
PITTSBURGH – A New York City attorney has denied he and his firm are liable for allegations of providing inadequate representation to former client and Pennsylvania contractor who lost $1 million in an underlying bankruptcy action.
ALLENTOWN – A Chester Springs woman accuses the Owen J. Roberts School District of failing to protect her from being molested by her philosophy teacher when she was a high school student in 2020.
SCRANTON – A federal judge has consolidated separate lawsuits brought by a therapist at a Pennsylvania juvenile detention and rehabilitation facility, who claimed he faced racial discrimination and retaliation for reporting physical and mental abuse at the facility.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh man and his co-plaintiff refutes denials from his former employer and reiterate claims that he was physically assaulted by his employer, in a dispute over Payroll Protection Program funds that supposedly remained in his possession.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man who claimed he and his friends were nearly killed by their Uber driver in a ride-gone-wrong, wants Uber’s preliminary objections to his lawsuit thrown out.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County police officer has denied he targeted a Pitcairn business owner with racial discrimination, harassment, code violations and false prosecution, after she publicly criticized the police’s perceived use of violence on Black citizens on social media.
MEDIA – The City of Chester has countered a petition from a Delaware County banquet hall owner who alleged that the City violated his constitutional rights by revoking a zoning permit issued to him based on erroneous information, by saying the petitioner failed to exhaust his administrative remedies.
ALLENTOWN – Subsequent to a stay related to departing counsel, a federal judge has restarted litigation between a fired office manager of Hispanic origin and her former place of business, a Philadelphia law firm – which alleged that the plaintiff and a fellow co-worker were discriminated against during their tenure because of their ethnic background.
PHILADELPHIA – East Bradford Township and one of its public works officials have denied being responsible for claims of retaliation and civil rights violations, brought by a former employee who alleged he was fired for reporting dangerous conditions relating to decaying tree limbs in the municipality.
PITTSBURGH – The operator of residential homes for adults with mental and physical disabilities has launched legal action against seven individuals, alleging they have spread false and defamatory information regarding its care of a developmentally-disabled and autistic boy.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge granted a motion for dismissal filed on behalf of Boyertown Area School District, against a lawsuit filed by a teacher who claimed she faced both sex discrimination and retaliation in the course of her work.
MEDIA – A Prospect Park physician denies all liability in a medical malpractice negligence lawsuit which alleged negligence on his part and that of other parties, which caused the plaintiff’s late husband to die of a pulmonary embolism.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has remanded to state court the case of a local woman who claimed she suffered extensive knee and back injuries when she slipped and fell on a section of walkway in the lot of a UPS building in Philadelphia last year.
ALLENTOWN – For jurisdictional reasons, Pennsylvania State Police defendants are looking to dismiss litigation filed by a New Jersey man who alleged he was falsely accused of stealing a wallet at a Bethlehem casino on account of his Hispanic heritage, and imprisoned for three days by both the Bethlehem Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.
ERIE – A Western Pennsylvania man who suffered severe injuries to his teeth after being struck by a baseball nearly nine years ago claims that Little League Baseball promised him and his family that its insurance would cover his full medical damages and later reneged on that promise.
HARRISBURG – Justices from a divided Supreme Court of Pennsylvania have explained their rationales for recently selecting or choosing not to select the new congressional map that will govern politics and elections statewide for the next decade.
HARRISBURG – A panel of judges from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a Westmoreland County court was correct when it granted summary judgment to a property management company that it found was not responsible for injuries suffered by one of its tenants.
