HARRISBURG – More than three dozen comic creators have filed a class action lawsuit against a Pennsylvania publisher, claiming that the organization showed a lack of communication, statements, marketing, changed publishing plans and failed to pay them.
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a Philadelphia couple and a Bensalem fitness facility, which claimed that the gym was negligent in maintaining the safety of its treadmill machines and as a result the wife-plaintiff fell and suffered severe injuries, will now be heading to arbitration.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ordered that more specificity must be provided by a Canadian plaintiff who alleged that a Bucks County manufacturer and installer of shower doors was negligent in its professional duties – and thus, led to her minor-aged daughter being cut by broken glass when it shattered during their hotel stay last year.
PHILADELPHIA – A local woman says 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 – A federal judge has ruled that man who lost a finger on the premises of his business while using a Black & Decker-manufactured polisher, will be permitted to have his expert witness present scientific testimony, defeating a combined summary judgment and Daubert motion from the company.
PITTSBURGH – Three defendants have been dismissed from litigation brought by a Pittsburgh couple who alleged that they were the targets of excessive force and battery injuries, when Penn Hills Police Department officers responded to a domestic complaint.
PHILADELPHIA – Opposing motions seeking to determine the venue for wrongful death litigation brought by the estate of a young man killed when an allegedly faulty gate at a landfill dropped onto his car are now in play, in a federal court.
MEDIA – A default judgment has been entered against a security guard who allegedly committed sexual assault against a Philadelphia woman when she was a student in the William Penn School District.
PHILADELPHIA — A School District of Philadelphia employee claims she faced discrimination, disciplinary actions and retaliation because of her pregnancy.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man who was awarded $15,000 by a Pittsburgh jury after he sued his former employer, a fireworks company, for allegedly failing to accommodate his condition of claustrophobia, has now been awarded more than $258,000 in attorney’s fees and costs.
PHILADELPHIA – A local woman claims 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.
SCRANTON – Summary judgment motions have been filed in a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company litigating over claims concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of the plaintiff’s wife.
PITTSBURGH – An employee of a carpet cleaning service who claimed he was wrongfully terminated during the COVID-19 pandemic when he objected to working in areas where social distancing and wearing of protective personal equipment was not being practiced, now denies that his former company provided him with personal protective equipment.
SCRANTON – Health care defendants accused of failing to prevent an alleged assault on a licensed practical nurse, an act committed by a man with a supposed history of violent behavior towards his colleagues, want all requests for punitive damages removed from the case.
ALLENTOWN – A quintet of local plaintiffs whose mail-in votes from November’s general election were set to be discarded due to their signatures lacking an accompanying date have sued the Lehigh County Board of Elections in federal court, seeking an emergency preliminary injunction to prevent the certification of the results.
PHILADELPHIA – Law enforcement defendants are seeking the dismissal of numerous claims from the civil rights violation case of a man who argues he was erroneously convicted of three murders, for which he has served 28 years in prison.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge ordered a conditional dismissal for one company named in a lawsuit filed by an election poll worker, which alleged she suffered a broken arm when she was asked to repair a faulty voting machine herself.
