PHILADELPHIA – A Bucks County man has voluntarily discontinued litigation against a pair of manufacturers for negligence and other causes of action in federal court, after his legs were allegedly crushed while using a turntable stretch wrapper machine.
PITTSBURGH – The United Steelworkers union is continuing in its attempt to vacate and dismiss arbitration proceedings, which sought to obtain sick pay benefits for a former assistant district attorney who passed away of cancer in 2019.
ALLENTOWN – The former director of dining services at a Lancaster retirement home community has prevailed in her wrongful termination-related disability lawsuit, winning a judgment of $812,036.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman has filed a class action lawsuit against a local scrap metal processing facility, claiming that the facility’s operation led to the emission of noxious odors, particulates and imposition of noise on a number of surrounding area homeowners.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has rebuffed an attempt by the MyLife.com website to dismiss litigation from a Bucks County man and fencing instruction facility, finding that limited discovery should be conducted on the issue of whether or not the case will head to arbitration.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania couple have settled their claims against an Illinois-based farmers’ market chain, after one of the plaintiffs struck a raised bumper and fell while shopping in a local store owned by the defendant.
PHILADELPHIA – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is seeking the dismissal of litigation brought by a Chester County man who alleged he was illegally subjected to detainment, search, arrest and a blood test for DUI without probable cause by a Pennsylvania state trooper.
PITTSBURGH – Aldi contends that it was not liable for injuries one of its shoppers says she suffered when she came into contact with an accumulated, sticky substance on the floor of the grocery retailer’s Penn Hills location.
PHILADELPHIA - Eddieberto Martinez filed a federal complaint on October 19 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against American Airlines for negligence.
ALLENTOWN – A federal lawsuit alleges that a now-incarcerated ex-employee of the Reading Recreation Commission committed multiple acts of sexual abuse and molestation against a then-11-year-old girl, and that the organization both failed to stop the abuse from happening and violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights.
HARRISBURG – A federal judge has decreed that an Internal Affairs report surrounding an excessive force incident will not be made available to the plaintiff alleging the event took place, while audio recordings of officer interviews will.
MEDIA – A group of Delaware County neighbors who had alleged that an adjacent contractor’s materials-crushing operations were creating a private and public nuisance and violating a local township ordinance for noise and air quality, now has two less plaintiffs to oppose that contractor in court.
PITTSBURGH – A physical therapy firm accused of not using personal protective equipment and leading a Bethel Park couple to contract COVID-19 has cited a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in support of its efforts to dismiss the plaintiffs’ case.
MEDIA – A Delaware County woman who has now twice alleged that negligence on the part of a host of medical professionals in the Crozer Health Care System led to her late husband’s cancer being missed in examinations, is seeking to consolidate both of her cases.
PITTSBURGH – An Upper St. Clair man alleges that he was to be the recipient of a $1 million bequest from a close friend of his prior to his death, only to have the decedent’s significant other cancel the gift.
PHILADELPHIA – After 19 years of litigation leading to a settlement, a federal court recently dismissed a qui tam complaint against the Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical company for alleged violations of the False Claims Act.
CAMDEN, N.J. – Starbucks seeks summary judgment to dismiss a discrimination suit filed by a former regional director for the coffee company, saying it would have taken the same terminating actions against the plaintiff’s employment regardless of the suit’s events at issue.
PITTSBURGH – Ambridge Area School District wants a federal court to throw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of a 14-year-old African-American and special needs student at its high school who claimed he was kicked off the football team for participating in an angry exchange with a teammate who had bullied him on Snapchat.
SCRANTON – Moses Taylor Hospital has reached a stipulation in lieu of preliminary objections which will reduce damages in a lawsuit with the parent of a minor girl who suffered a case of appendicitis, due to the alleged negligence of a Scranton hospital and the initial physician that she and her family consulted with.
