PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has approved a California-based airline’s attempt to obtain interlocutory review from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in a lawsuit filed by a pilot allegedly poisoned by carbon monoxide exposure.
HARRISBURG – A Pennsylvania waterway environmental group has launched litigation against a food processing company, charging it with having polluted Oil Creek and the Susquehanna River and violating the state Clean Streams Law and the federal Clean Water Act in the process.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied an injunction sought by a group of parents from Chester County and Delaware County in legal action pitting them against their local school district, over the implementation of a health and safety plan which includes a mask mandate for students unless they receive a religious or medical exemption and regular COVID-19 testing.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appellate court recently decided that a lower court’s ruling to dismiss a former Philadelphia police sergeant’s hostile work environment claim was correct, in that the claim wasn’t supported beyond an errant text message.
PITTSBURGH – The daughter and husband of a deceased Beaver Falls woman are litigating with Walmart for alleged negligence-related damages connected to severe leg injuries she suffered in a local Walmart store prior to her passing.
MEDIA – Trinity Health Corporation has filed preliminary objections charging that allegations of professional medical negligence levied by a Pennsylvania woman are so vague that it does not give them the opportunity to properly defend against them.
PITTSBURGH – An Illinois online lender contends that a Washington County woman’s class action lawsuit claiming it charged usurious interest rates on loans it offered to its customers should be handled through arbitration, or alternatively dismissed.
MEDIA – Two Black female instructors at a school for children with autism spectrum disorders who have alleged that they were the targets of racially-discriminatory behavior from their co-workers, deny any credibility to the defendants’ objections.
HARRISBURG – A three-judge complement of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld the trial court dismissal of a civil suit pitting two families against one another, one caused by a series of events which took place in the wake of a dog-bite attack.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man alleges that his civil rights were violated when he was arrested for allegedly molesting and raping his stepdaughter, charges which he claims are untrue and were recanted by the girl.
PITTSBURGH – A Verona woman whose son was murdered by a Pittsburgh-area man, a one-time college classmate previously diagnosed with severe psychiatric illness and violent impulses, is opposing a protective order pertaining to psychiatric treatment records filed by his parents.
WILLIAMSPORT – Following a similar move from Verizon, White Deer Township’s Zoning Hearing Board has also filed for summary judgment in a suit which claimed a municipal zoning board in North Central Pennsylvania violated federal law in denying it the opportunity to build a cell phone tower, and that the denial prevents a sizable area from obtaining its wireless telecommunications services.
MEDIA – A Delaware County woman pursuing legal action against her former attorney for the second time, alleging that trust funds she was intended to receive after the death of her companion were instead misappropriated by that same lawyer, has been granted a default judgment.
PHILADEPHIA — A former patient of an extended care facility claims lack of fall prevention procedures caused her to fall and suffer a traumatic brain injury. Maria R.
JOHNSTOWN – An Altoona couple claim a device created to assist babies in sleeping instead caused the death of their three-month-old son from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome due to the product’s inherent defects.
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia police officers who have denied that they used excessive force on a Massachusetts man when responding to his opiate overdose and allegedly caused his death, counter that their actions are protected through qualified immunity.
PHILADELPHIA – Pottstown Hospital and Tower Health are looking to dismiss a Chester County woman’s suit which alleged that she was subjected to excessive force when arrested there two years ago by various entities within the Pottstown Police Department, for failure to state a claim.
PHILADELPHIA – A local corrections officer who claimed that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was disciplined for speech made in a Facebook post to call for a rally in response to payroll policy breaches, now reiterates his pleadings and says they are solid enough to turn away a motion to dismiss.
PITTSBURGH – Greater Latrobe School District is seeking to consolidate separate lawsuits filed by current or former students and their parents, regarding incidents of alleged hazing during the time the students were members of the wrestling team.
