PHILADELPHIA – A Bucks County trucking firm now seeks a preliminary injunction to prevent the City of Philadelphia and the U.S. Department of Transportation from revoking its certification to qualify as a “Disadvantaged Business Enterprise.”
ALLENTOWN – A group of current and former employees from the University of Pennsylvania Health System, who believe that forcible disclosure of their vaccination status violates their constitutional rights, stand by their claims and seek a federal court to throw out the health care company’s motion to dismiss its case.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a local rehabilitation center for delinquent youth believes that sexual assault litigation filed against their clients by a Western Pennsylvania man should be transferred to a Forest County court.
PITTSBURGH - John Conners filed a federal complaint on October 21 in the Western District of Pennsylvania against the City of Pittsburgh and unknown police officers for excessive force, false arrest, malicious prosecution, retaliation and other claims.
PITTSBURGH — Construction workers on the Pennsylvania Petrochemical Complex, known as the Shell Cracker Plant, in the western part of the state are claiming they did not receive overtime pay.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has unanimously ruled that venue standards for defamation established more than half a century ago continue to hold up, despite the quantum leaps of technological change which have taken place during that time.
PHILADELPHIA – The case of an anesthesiologist who filed an age-based employment discrimination lawsuit against the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is heading to trial, with the defendant claiming that the case is without evidentiary support.
PITTSBURGH – Uber’s attempt to dismiss litigation from a Carnegie man who said that he and his friends were nearly killed by their driver has been defeated, for now, by a federal judge’s ruling.
HARRISBURG – Litigation brought by a Hershey woman alleging that her comments to the Derry Township School Board on the relative dearth of mental health services provided to students there led to the District retaliating against her, has been stayed.
PHILADELPHIA – A Delaware County couple who alleged that the husband-plaintiff was seriously injured when a security door opened into his head at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, have settled their claims connected to that incident.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia federal court has remanded Cheltenham Township’s lawsuit to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars it says it paid to a planning, engineering and architecture firm, one which allegedly overbilled its clients, to the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
ALLENTOWN – An equipment company has disavowed liability for claims from an associate at a New Jersey Walmart, who alleged he suffered severe head injuries from using a merchandise moving machine, instead re-directing the liability to the machine’s manufacturer through a cross-claim.
MEDIA – A Havertown urgent care facility recently sought a judgment of non pros in a wrongful death action accusing it of failing to diagnose a woman’s pneumonia, later causing her to die of the condition in December 2019.
PHILADELPHIA - Mark Fosbenner filed a federal complaint on October 22 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Sugarhouse HSP Gaming Prop, GP, LLC d/b/a Rivers Casino Philadelphia f/k/a Sugarhouse Casino for discrimination and retaliation.
Pennsylvania’s United States Attorney’s Offices and the Pennsylvania Sheriffs’ Association Join Forces to Educate the Traveling Public About Safe Firearms Transport.
HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has stricken a $1.37 million award of attorney’s fees determined by a Delaware County trial court in a $34,000 contract dispute case, finding that the clerk who entered the award did not have the legal authority to do so.
WILLIAMSPORT – An anonymous woman and steward at Penn State University contends she was subject to sexual harassment and retaliation at her workplace, after she was allegedly raped by her direct supervisor.
