PHILADELPHIA – The Greyhound and Flixbus transportation companies seek to disprove allegations that they were responsible for the death of a 32-year-old man from cardiac arrest, while aboard a Greyhound bus bound for Philadelphia two years ago.
PITTSBURGH – A man named as a defendant in a harassment and defamation lawsuit surrounding a brief relationship between himself and a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney, has objected to the allegations directing responsibility for the charges in question to him.
SCRANTON – An activist who recently dismissed his constitutional challenge of the City of Williamsport’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, has now filed substantially-similar litigation against the City of Scranton.
PITTSBURGH – A North Carolina woman alleges that the death of her father in tractor-trailer/train collision was the fault of the Norfolk Southern rail company and others, who allegedly failed to take proper safety measures that would have prevented the crash.
PITTSBURGH – An individual among a group of class action plaintiffs opposes an attempt by Giant Eagle grocery stores to sanction him for missing two appointments to take his deposition.
PITTSBURGH – A non-denominational religious group is ready to settle federal claims it made that a Pennsylvania law was allegedly used by state officials to declare that it may not solemnize legal marriages in the Commonwealth.
PITTSBURGH – Giant Eagle grocery stores is pushing for sanctions against one of a group of class action plaintiffs suing it for enforcing mask mandates, despite their disabilities.
PITTSBURGH – A settlement has been finalized in litigation filed over burn injuries a Western Pennsylvania woman says she suffered, when a plastic container allegedly failed and meatballs fell onto her left foot.
PITTSBURGH – A plaintiff suing Giant Eagle grocery stores for enforcing mask mandates against her despite her disability, is opposing the store’s attempt to seek legal sanctions to be levied against her and other plaintiffs in her class action suit.
MEDIA – A state court judge has denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings and/or dismissal, in a case from a former member of the Borough of Eddystone’s Civil Service Commission who claimed he was removed from that post and defamed during a council meeting by the mayor and a councilperson regarding his alleged criminal record, which he stated does not exist.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man stands by allegations that he suffered severe burns on the tops of his feet, after a session in an infrared sauna therapy booth in a Pittsburgh business.
PITTSBURGH – Litigation between the estate of a deceased man, who was tasered nine times by a local police officer due to being initially considered a suspect in a bicycle theft and who later died from his injuries, and the City of Pittsburgh has been stayed, in order for the parties to resolve the dispute.
ALLENTOWN – Authorities in the Owen J. Roberts School District have denied allegations that they failed to protect a Chester Springs woman from being molested by her philosophy teacher when she was a high school student in 2020.
PHILADELPHIA – Defendants named in a Florida man’s lawsuit over the alleged inequitable distribution of assets from his mother’s will to himself and his two siblings, have countered that the plaintiff’s suit fails to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.
MEDIA – The daughters of a Delaware County nursing home resident who contended that improper care from facility staff directly caused their mother’s death, have settled their claims with the nursing home company for $20,000.
PITTSBURGH – A settlement is in the works, in litigation filed over burn injuries a Western Pennsylvania woman says she suffered, when a plastic container allegedly failed and the meatballs fell onto her left foot.
WILLIAMSPORT – A former All-American member of Penn State University’s women’s fencing team has filed Title IX litigation against her former head coach, alleging she was subjected to physical, psychological and verbal abuse which derailed her hopes to become a nationally renowned Olympic fencer.
PHILADELPHIA – A local woman who claimed that a negligently placed and overturned traffic control sign placed on a city sidewalk caused her to fall and suffer serious injuries, now wants to remand her case to state court.
PITTSBURGH – For the second time, defense counsel for Giant Eagle grocery stores is seeking sanctions to be levied against several plaintiffs claiming their disabilities prevent them from wearing face coverings in stores during the coronavirus pandemic, claiming they’ve evaded proper discovery procedures and engaged in misconduct.
PITTSBURGH – The estate of a deceased man, who was tasered nine times by a Pittsburgh police officer due to being initially considered a suspect in a bicycle theft and who later died from his injuries, is now suing the City of Pittsburgh and the officers involved in the incident.
