HARRISBURG – The state Superior Court has affirmed a lower court's granting of summary judgment to an attorney sued for malpractice by a prison inmate he had formerly represented.
HARRISBURG — A doctor has lost his appeal seeking a new trial on damages after a Lehigh County court reduced a jury verdict in his favor by more than $50,000.
ALLENTOWN – A Pennsylvania-based auto repair business has initiated legal action against two of its former employees, claiming they breached their employment agreements and violated federal law in the process.
TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey Supreme Court decision reported to extend company responsibility for employees exposed to potentially hazardous material to include their housemates is more subtle than has been widely reported, an insurance attorney says.
PENNSYLVANIA — A former employee has filed a class-action lawsuit against Ideal Concepts Inc. and American Insurance Organization LLC, d/b/a SalesRadix, claiming the partner employers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court has struck down a breach of contract action brought by a pair of major insurance providers against a prominent law firm and one of its attorneys.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dismissed a man’s claim of civil rights violations against the City of Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Police Department.
A defense attorney who accidentally named a Philadelphia woman as his client in a pending negligence action, has petitioned to withdraw from representing her.
PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge has handed out the sentence of the last of three former Philadelphia Traffic Court judges convicted of committing perjury before a federal grand jury.
When Sgt. Robert Ralston, then a 21-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, reported that he had been shot in the shoulder by a black man during a struggle in the city’s Overbrook section back in April 2010, it riled up the law enforcement community, which vowed to capture the assailant.
A former suburban Philadelphia prison inmate who claims she was forced to live in “inhumane, barbaric conditions,” and suffered daily pain for a period of months due to a failure to get her proper medical care while behind bars has filed a federal civil rights complaint against those responsible for her care.
A handful of judges who sat on the now-defunct Philadelphia Traffic Court will go on trial on corruption charges this coming spring, not this winter as originally scheduled, with the federal jurist overseeing the case conceding defense requests for additional time by which to prepare their respective cases.
