PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman has called a local scrap metal processing facility’s preliminary objections against claims that it led to the emission of noxious odors, particulates and imposition of noise on a number of surrounding area homeowners as insufficient and “unavailing.”
HARRISBURG – A 3-2 majority of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the state’s law permitting mail-in voting is unconstitutional, a finding immediately appealed by the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf to the state Supreme Court.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has declared that a lawsuit brought by the City of Philadelphia against several pharmaceutical distributors and retailers for their role in allegedly creating and exacerbating the opioid epidemic in Philadelphia, will be remanded to state court for lack of federal jurisdiction.
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a group of plaintiffs and the City of Philadelphia, over claims the City failed to maintain its sidewalks to provide proper access to disabled citizens in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, has recently been stayed in advance of a potential settlement.
PHILADELPHIA – A local man who alleged that a Philadelphia police officer committed a brutal assault against him during his participation in protests surrounding the Minneapolis killing of George Floyd last year, contends that the City of Philadelphia has not met the burden of proof for the dismissal motion it filed in the case.
PITTSBURGH – The owner of a Pittsburgh wellness store maintains his business is not responsible for severe burns that a local man alleged he suffered on the tops of his feet, after using an infrared sauna therapy booth in the store.
SCRANTON — A political activist alleges his First Amendment rights were violated by not being able to burn a Donald Trump flag at a protest in the Township of East Buffalo. Gene Stilp filed a complaint Jan. 4 in the U.S.
LANCASTER – The owner of a goat that allegedly attacked a Delaware man has denied all liability and allegations from the plaintiff’s lawsuit, arguing that he was in fact actually responsible for the injuries that he suffered.
MEDIA – A Delaware County man contends that he has suffered permanent vitiligo as a result of using Just For Men hair color products which he purchased at a local CVS pharmacy store.
PHILADELPHIA – Beiersdorf has denied all liability towards litigation which alleged that they, along with Walmart, were collectively liable for severe burns a Montgomery County woman allegedly suffered after using Coppertone sunscreen.
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, saw his case dismissed from and now, remanded to, state court.
ALLENTOWN – A parent who alleged that a now-incarcerated ex-employee of the Reading Recreation Commission committed multiple acts of sexual abuse and molestation against his daughter, and that the organization both failed to stop the abuse from happening and violated her constitutional rights, refutes the group’s dismissal motion and stands by the complaint’s original claims.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has levied an order of confidentiality in litigation brought by the mother of a two-year-old girl burned by an allegedly faulty Instant Pot pressure cooking device, to the manufacturer of that same device.
ALLENTOWN – A Missouri-based health care marketing firm has launched breach of contract litigation against a Pennsylvania laboratory testing company for nearly $1.4 million it says the defendant company owes it.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has reversed the denial of class action certification to a homeowner engaged in litigation with a natural gas company, over its alleged usage of his property to store natural gas without compensating him.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman alleges that her special needs daughter was disfigured on the back of her head by an elastic headband she had purchased for use at a local Dollar Tree store.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied the attempt of Allegheny County officials to dismiss litigation from a Seattle-based, non-denominational church that alleged those officials are misusing a Pennsylvania law to avoid solemnizing legal marriages in the Commonwealth.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has permitted a plaintiff alleging that she was sexually abused as a middle school student by an assistant high school baseball coach, to proceed under a pseudonym.
