MEDIA – A Dominican Republic resort argues that a Delaware couple’s injury lawsuit against it should be dismissed without prejudice on jurisdictional grounds, since the alleged events in question took place in that Caribbean country and not Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA — Johnson & Johnson is facing a suit from a former warehouse employee who claims he endured racial slurs, threats of physical violence and retaliation.
PHILADELPHIA – Just prior to answering claims from nearly 150 plaintiffs suing the City of Philadelphia for alleged excessive force used during peaceful demonstrations on systemic racism and police brutality at 52nd Street and the Vine Street Expressway last year, a federal judge has ordered the City provide a proposed matrix for the plaintiffs’ individual monetary award damages.
SCRANTON – A fatal motor vehicle collision and subsequent lawsuit in a Lackawanna County court has had a settlement petition in the action submitted at a tentative amount to be distributed of $100,000.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appellate court’s ruling has provided clarifying guidance as to the circumstances by which exceptions are considered and given to the statute of repose under federal law, through an investor dispute action involving a Pennsylvania regional transportation entity.
PHILADELPHIA – Delaware County and a local senior care facility are appealing the defeat of their dismissal motion in a wrongful death lawsuit, filed by the surviving children of a man who died from COVID-19 while under the facility’s care, to a Washington, D.C. federal appellate court.
PITTSBURGH – A married couple’s lawsuit which alleged that West Penn Hospital was negligent in employing a radiology technician who used hidden cameras there to record more than 50 female patients in states of undress, including one of the plaintiffs, may be transferred to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas’s Commerce and Complex Litigation Center.
MEDIA – Folcroft Swim Club has denied allegations of negligence and lax security levied by the parents of a 13-year-old child who drowned at the facility two years ago and subsequently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the club.
MEDIA – Staff at a school for children with autism spectrum disorders disavow allegations that they acted in a racially-discriminatory fashion towards two of their Black co-workers, prior to their respective resignation and firing.
HARRISBURG – The Republican leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, a Republican state representative and a group of parents are litigating to overturn a statewide school mask mandate issued by the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf.
PHILADELPHIA – A group of Bucks County parents to children with disabilities have brought a federal court lawsuit to ensure that the Central Bucks School District provides reasonable accommodations to disabled students by implementing a COVID-19 health and safety plan aligned with current federal, state and local guidance.
PHILADELPHIA – A pair of West Chester residents are appealing the dismissal of their suit against the municipality and its mayor and challenging the constitutionality of their emergency declaration orders issued during the coronavirus pandemic to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
WILLIAMSPORT – Verizon has 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.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia law firm has countered litigation brought by its former chief marketing officer, who alleged she was fired when she complained of racially discriminatory practices within the firm, by arguing she was instead fired for just cause.
MEDIA – A member of the Civil Service Commission in the Borough of Eddystone contends that he was removed from that post and defamed during a council meeting by the mayor and a councilperson regarding his alleged criminal record, which the plaintiff says does not exist.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia woman’s lawsuit which accused the Vesper Dayclub in Northern Liberties of discriminating through its membership application process against prospective Black members has been settled.
PITTSBURGH – General Motors has filed a motion to seal the terms of a settlement it entered into with a Penfield plaintiff whose son was burned alive and killed in an auto accident, and who represented the decedent in a subsequent survival and wrongful death lawsuit.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh man who claimed that he received a severe shoulder infection as a result of an improperly administered influenza vaccine given at a Giant Eagle supermarket, has discontinued his case without prejudice.
