PITTSBURGH – The parties behind a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of workers at Shell Oil Company which alleged that the employees in question did not receive time-and-a-half compensation when they worked overtime hours, have refuted defenses put forward by a contractor for the oil company.
PITTSBURGH – A Tennessee company is fighting liability claims from other defendants in a lawsuit which claims that itself and a pair of Pittsburgh homeowners are responsible for injuries that a local man suffered, when an oak tree on the defendants’ lawn collapsed and fell on him during his run.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman has reiterated claims that she suffered a broken left arm and other injuries after falling while making a trip to the restroom of a Pittsburgh bar, and that the bar is responsible for those same injuries.
PHILADELPHIA — A worker at an Adamstown factory alleges he faced racial slurs and other harassment. Gregory Nelson filed a complaint Jan. 18 in the U.S.
PHILADELPHIA – Five individuals who filed a lawsuit for Parkinson’s disease they suffered allegedly as a result of exposure to an herbicide called Paraquat have dropped their case without prejudice, just a week-and-a-half after filing it.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge dismissed an age discrimination lawsuit from a former employee of the University of Pittsburgh, finding that the plaintiff missed his 300-day deadline to file a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied without prejudice an attempt by the City of Pittsburgh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to dismiss litigation from AT&T, which asserted that the defendants violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by their limiting of the company’s ability to place wireless facilities on telephone poles in the City’s rights-of-way.
PHILADELPHIA – A group of Bucks County parents who litigated with the Central Bucks School District to provide reasonable accommodations to their children, who are disabled students, by implementing a COVID-19 health and safety plan aligned with current federal, state and local guidance, have dropped their suit.
SCRANTON – A woman who alleged she suffered arm and neurological damage during a tenodesis surgery last year stands by her claims against the hospital system through which the procedure was conducted.
PHILADELPHIA — A former employee of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas claims he was wrongfully terminated over false assault claims by a female coworker.
ALLENTOWN – A New Jersey man claims 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.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has thrown out an attempt at securing summary judgment through the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act from a chemical and ingredient solutions distributor, in response to a lawsuit brought against it by a New Jersey truck driver.
PITTSBURGH – Butler County seeks to apply joinder to litigation brought by a Butler probation officer who alleged he was discriminated against by his superiors for requesting time off due to stress and anxiety, by joining the Butler County Court of Common Pleas as an additional defendant.
PITTSBURGH – Westmoreland County and its Corrections Commissioner have answered accusations of harassment and professional retaliation from the former warden of the county’s prison, arguing that the plaintiff’s complaint fails to state a claim.
PHILADELPHIA – The manufacturer of Just For Men hair color products has removed the lawsuit of a Delaware County man, who alleged he suffered permanent vitiligo from using the products he purchased at a local CVS pharmacy store, to a federal court in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA — The manufacturer of millions of dehumidifiers is facing a breach of contract claim after the products allegedly caused more than 100 fire events.
SCRANTON – A trio of Scranton School District employees have sued the District over rules it implemented last month requiring them to perform their paraprofessional duties inside students’ homes if virtual learning once again takes place, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its pervasive Omicron variant.
HARRISBURG – Some claims and one defendant have been dismissed from litigation between a transgender male state employee and a Pennsylvania-affiliated health care provider, one which he claimed discriminated against him and denied him insurance coverage for his gender/sex-affirming surgery.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. government has rejected an initial $500,000 settlement offer made by counsel for a local woman who suffered severe leg injuries, in a fall over a metal barrier at Washington Square Park in Philadelphia more than three years ago.
HARRISBURG – A Pennsylvania waterway environmental group and a food processing company are seeking to stay litigation the two parties are involved in over claims of the latter polluting Oil Creek and the Susquehanna River and violating the state Clean Streams Law and the federal Clean Water Act in the process.
