ALLENTOWN – 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, has been stayed due to the plaintiff’s counsel leaving the case.
PHILADELPHIA – Two defendants among a group accused of $3.5 million in non-payment of legal bills to a Missouri law firm deny that they committed any such offense, and that the firm never represented them in any relevant litigation.
PITTSBURGH – Whitehall Borough claims that a local store owner’s lawsuit alleging that policy towards skill machines and mechanical device licenses is being selectively enforced against him in violation of state and federal law, is groundless and that his constitutional rights do not extend to being granted such a license.
HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday that the Commonwealth’s Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam would resign her position at the end of the year, just three days after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania struck down a statewide school mask mandate order that she issued in September.
HARRISBURG – A Harrisburg woman claims that her 13 year-old son was racially targeted by management at a local Dollar Store and falsely accused of shoplifting, nearly being arrested by police who responded to the scene.
PHILADELPHIA – McDonald’s seeks summary judgment in a case brought by a teenager who alleged that one of its managers showed her sexually graphic photos on his phone during her job interview, by arguing that the plaintiff hasn’t properly pled or supported her claims.
PITTSBURGH – A Beaver County couple recently settled claims with the operators of a local baseball and softball field, who they alleged were responsible for injuries the wife-plaintiff suffered when she was allegedly struck by an ATV at the field.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County man who served as a high school football head coach for eight years stands by assertions that he was defamed by school district officials with false claims that he permitted hazing and bullying in the football program.
PITTSBURGH — A man is suing the manufacturer of a sauna booth after suffering severe burns on his feet. Alphonso Muhammad filed a complaint Nov. 23 in the U.S.
PHILADELPHIA – After a jury trial, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has prevailed over an age-based employment discrimination lawsuit filed against it by one of its longtime anesthesiologists.
PHILADELPHIA – A pair of legal observers who attended a local protest after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis say they were attacked by police responding to the event and suffered a multitude of serious injuries.
PITTSBURGH – A lawsuit against Black & Decker surrounding a home construction fire that allegedly caused a Pennsylvania man $5 million in damages has been sent to Allegheny County’s complex litigation center.
PHILADELPHIA – Two separate companies 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, mutually and steadfastly deny cross-claims levied against them by one of their co-defendants.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County continues to oppose the dismissal of arbitration proceedings and any payout of donated sick time to the estate of a former district attorney who passed away of cancer in 2019, charging that such a move would violate a collective bargaining agreement with the decedent’s union.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has nullified the statewide school mask mandate issued by Secretary of Health Alison Beam in September, aligning with a similar ruling from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania handed down last month and dealing a legal blow to the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf.
PHILADELPHIA – A Bensalem fitness facility discounts all liability towards a negligence lawsuit it faces from a Philadelphia couple, who claimed that it was negligent in maintaining the safety of its treadmill machines, leading the wife-plaintiff to fall off said machine and suffer severe injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – A former employee for East Bradford Township’s Public Works Department has responded to his former supervisor’s argument attempting to invalidate his retaliation and civil rights claims, by asserting a deposition he gave was protected speech and yet faced professional reprisal for it nonetheless.
SCRANTON – Moses Taylor Hospital has denied all liability in a lawsuit it faces from the parent of a minor girl who suffered a case of appendicitis, due to alleged negligence on its part and that of the initial physician that she and her family consulted with.
