PHILADELPHIA – The widow of a meatpacking supervisor for Tyson Foods who brought litigation against the company, alleging that its deficient precautions to protect against COVID-19 led to her husband’s death from the disease last year, will not see her case remanded to state court.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit which claimed a wide variety of retailers have been unlawfully charging sales tax on the purchases of face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man alleges that while a juvenile resident at a local rehabilitation center for delinquent youth, he was repeatedly assaulted both physically and sexually by staff members at the facility.
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia seeks to once and for all dismiss litigation from a street preacher locally known as “Philly Jesus” who filed a wrongful prosecution case against it after being arrested when he was evangelizing in a public park just before Christmas in 2019.
ALLENTOWN – A New Jersey man who filed a federal lawsuit against the medical professionals involved in a surgery he claims resulted in his wife’s death from internal bleeding, is opposing a Bethlehem hospital’s attempt to have itself dismissed from the litigation through summary judgment.
PHILADELPHIA – An arcade game manufacturer says there is no truth to a lawsuit brought by the mother of a boy who was crushed by such a game machine at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Philadelphia, which argues the device was defective.
ALLENTOWN – The University of Pennsylvania has filed to dismiss claims from a group of its former employees that believe forcible disclosure of their vaccination status violates their constitutional rights.
PITTSBURGH – A bride who allegedly contracted impetigo six days before her wedding and after getting her makeup done at a Pittsburgh-area Sephora store has settled her claims with the retailer.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge determined that a suit from a Penn State University student which alleged the school rescinded her Master’s Degree more than a year and a half after she was awarded it due to supposedly not producing original work, is credible enough to defeat a dismissal motion from the school.
PHILADELPHIA – While a Delaware County couple claim that a security door at the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia opened into the husband-plaintiff’s head and injured him, the defendants are pointing fingers at one another, claiming the other is liable for the plaintiffs’ injuries.
PITTSBURGH – The parents of a Pittsburgh-area high school student claim their son was discriminated against on the basis of his race and ethnicity, as his school supposedly failed to address the pervasive bullying he was experiencing and caused him to be afflicted with an eating disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s newest justice will be Commonwealth Court Judge P. Kevin Brobson, who narrowly defeated Superior Court Judge Maria McLaughlin in the appellate court elections on Tuesday.
PHILADELPHIA – A Luzerne County man says that a pair of West Chester police officers used excessive force when arresting him two years ago, causing him to suffer a series of bodily injuries and the deprivation of his constitutional rights.
PHILADELPHIA – A plaintiff who claimed to be injured on the sidewalk outside a Bucks County Costco store in a federal lawsuit has settled his claims with the bulk retailer.
PITTSBURGH – One defendant has denied claims of liability in a lawsuit brought by a nail salon’s former employee, an ex-employee who claimed he was physically assaulted by one of the defendants over Payroll Protection Program funds that allegedly remained in his possession.
PITTSBURGH – A Tennessee company has discounted liability in a lawsuit which claims that itself and a pair of Pittsburgh homeowners are liable for injuries that a local man suffered, when an oak tree on the defendants’ lawn collapsed and fell on him during his run.
SCRANTON – A quintet of anonymous parents to disabled and medically vulnerable children has sued Delaware Valley School District and its School Board, over their decision to permit parent-backed student exemptions to the state’s mask mandate for Pennsylvania schools.
SCRANTON – Geisinger Medical Center denies allegations from a pair of plaintiffs that it caused a Carbondale woman in its care two years ago to die of cardiac arrest.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has green-lighted enforcement of a subpoena to produce a radiologist’s report outlining a toddler’s quality of medical care, in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the parents of that same child, who underwent emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles.
LANCASTER – A Parkesburg couple stand by their allegations that a local Best Western resort was negligent in using an elevated platform stage without railings, which caused one of the plaintiffs to fall from the platform and suffer a multitude of injuries.
