HARRISBURG – A group of Pennsylvania Republicans has withdrawn its legal challenge to state officials surrounding the recent selection of a new congressional map, without prejudice.
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has overruled preliminary objections from a retired schoolteacher in Maryland, who denied that she defamed a Pennsylvania private school educator accused of sexually abusing his students.
MEDIA – A state court judge has overruled preliminary objections filed by a Dominican Republic resort, which had argued 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.
ERIE – Little League Baseball denies liability for severe dental injuries an Oil City man suffered when he was struck by a baseball nearly nine years ago, and further denied allegations that it promised the plaintiff and his family that its insurance would cover his full medical damages and later reneged on that promise.
SCRANTON – A licensed practical nurse in Lackawanna County who claimed that she was assaulted at her workplace two years ago by an individual who had a repeated history of violent behavior towards her colleagues, wants a judge to overrule the defendant’s motion to strike her demand for punitive damages.
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has overruled preliminary objections from ride share company Uber, who oppose litigation from a Western Pennsylvania man who claimed he and his friends were nearly killed by their Uber driver in a ride-gone-wrong.
SCRANTON – A federal judge has consolidated separate lawsuits brought by a therapist at a Pennsylvania juvenile detention and rehabilitation facility, who claimed he faced racial discrimination and retaliation for reporting physical and mental abuse at the facility.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man who claimed he and his friends were nearly killed by their Uber driver in a ride-gone-wrong, wants Uber’s preliminary objections to his lawsuit thrown out.
SCRANTON – A man with a supposed history of violent behavior towards his colleagues and who allegedly assaulted a licensed practical nurse at work, denies the allegations against him and has motioned for punitive damages to be stricken from the case.
PHILADELPHIA – Two police defendants are seeking a stay from their involvement in the civil rights violation case of a man who argues he was erroneously convicted of three murders, for which he served 28 years in prison – since they feel their testimony may be used against them in another criminal case.
SCRANTON – Summary judgment motions have been filed in a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company litigating over claims concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of the plaintiff’s wife.
SCRANTON – Health care defendants accused of failing to prevent an alleged assault on a licensed practical nurse, an act committed by a man with a supposed history of violent behavior towards his colleagues, want all requests for punitive damages removed from the case.
PHILADELPHIA – Law enforcement defendants are seeking the dismissal of numerous claims from the civil rights violation case of a man who argues he was erroneously convicted of three murders, for which he has served 28 years in prison.
SCRANTON – A licensed practical nurse in Lackawanna County claims that she was assaulted at her workplace two years ago, by an individual who had a repeated history of violent behavior towards her colleagues.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a trio of professional athletes and the players’ associations of Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the National Hockey League, all of whom allege that the City of Pittsburgh’s “jock tax” that is applied to both resident and non-resident athletes is unconstitutional, are now seeking summary judgment in their clients’ case.
WILLIAMSPORT – Geisinger Health has denied it violated federal anti-trust laws as alleged in a class action lawsuit against itself and Evangelical Community Hospital, which claimed the Pennsylvania hospitals engaged in a secret “no-poach agreement” that suppressed professional mobility and salaries in Central Pennsylvania.
PITTSBURGH – A Christian private school denies allegations that it discriminated against a 16 year-old student on the basis of his race and ethnicity, through its alleged failure to prevent bullying he experienced, which later led him to develop an eating disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
PITTSBURGH – A retired schoolteacher from Maryland denies that she defamed a Pennsylvania private school educator accused of sexually abusing his students, finding the plaintiff’s claims of defamation, tortious interference and others levied against her to be without merit.
