PHILADELPHIA – Recently, judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided a Philadelphia man’s complaint against the U.S. Social Security Administration was barred by sovereign immunity, upholding a trial court ruling in the process.
PHILADELPHIA – A decision out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit earlier this fall that a pharmaceutical company in a Pennsylvania product-hopping case did not violate the Sherman Antitrust Act seems to be at odds with a prior precedent-setting case, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney says.
HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled a motion for summary judgment reached in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in a class-action lawsuit involving McDonald’s hourly employees and wage payments would stand.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal court has rejected a May 26 motion for reconsideration connected to a dismissal of a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty filed against Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 380 and the Union’s Trustees of the Health, Welfare and Pension Plans.
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty filed against Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 380 and the Union’s Trustees of the Health, Welfare and Pension Plans.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court has ruled against a pair of attorneys who filed suit for age discrimination, based on a supposed lack of pretextual evidence.
PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday, a federal appeals court affirmed the verdict of a Philadelphia federal court by dismissing a due process claim brought by a former Section 8 housing resident.
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series examining evidence submitted in Garlock Sealing Technologies’ bankruptcy proceeding that was recently unsealed as a result of Legal Newsline’s legal challenge.
A federal judge has granted summary judgment to the Borough of Ambler and various municipal police officers who were being sued by a Philadelphia man who had claimed police illegally obtained his blood sample in relation to a robbery case on which they were working.
A recently filed lawsuit claims a Philadelphia man who had already lost his right leg had to have his left leg amputated after he developed an infection in that limb that was allegedly caused by a fall he suffered at an area hospital following a knee replacement surgery.