MEDIA – A Lansdale woman who alleged that her local Big Lots store created and failed to repair a tripping hazard on its premises, which led to her falling and becoming seriously injured while she was shopping there, has settled her claims.
NORRISTOWN – A planning, engineering and architecture firm has denied allegations made by Cheltenham Township that it overbilled the municipality by hundreds of thousands of dollars in a Montgomery County court.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia federal court has remanded Cheltenham Township’s lawsuit to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars it says it paid to a planning, engineering and architecture firm, one which allegedly overbilled its clients, to the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA – Per a state Attorney General’s Office investigation, Cheltenham Township is seeking to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars it says it paid to a planning, engineering and architecture firm, one which allegedly overbilled its clients.
MEDIA – Two Black female instructors at a school for children with autism spectrum disorders who have alleged that they were the targets of racially-discriminatory behavior from their co-workers, deny any credibility to the defendants’ objections.
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.
MEDIA – Two Black female instructors at a school for children with autism spectrum disorders allege that they were the targets of racially-discriminatory behavior from their co-workers, leading one of the plaintiffs to resign and the other to be fired.
PITTSBURGH – The parent company of Pottery Barn introduced additional arguments in state court to support its allegations that an adjoining hamburger restaurant leaked both water and sewage into one of its mall stores in Mount Lebanon.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the Commonwealth cannot dodge liability through the real estate exception to sovereign immunity, in cases where its negligent design and construction created a defective and dangerous condition, and later caused injury.
MEDIA – Big Lots refutes claims made by a Lansdale woman that it created and failed to remedy a tripping hazard on the premises of one of its local stores, which led to her falling and becoming seriously injured while she was shopping there.
A Lansdale woman is suing Big Lots Stores, Inc. after she allegedly tripped on a wooden frame that had fallen off an overflowing unattended restocking cart at the Lansdale Big Lots, according to documents filed in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas.
MEDIA – A Lansdale woman alleges that her local Big Lots store created and failed to repair a tripping hazard on its premises, which led to her falling and becoming seriously injured while she was shopping there.
PITTSBURGH – A hamburger restaurant and shopping mall management company have denied claims brought by the parent company of Pottery Barn, that the restaurant leaked both water and sewage into one of Pottery Barn’s mall stores in Mount Lebanon.
PITTSBURGH – The parent company of Pottery Barn brought legal action in state court over allegations that an adjoining hamburger restaurant leaked both water and sewage into one of its mall stores in Mount Lebanon.
The following cases categorized as "contract" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on April 27. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by 329 Mainlans LLC, 560 Wellington Square Associates LLC, Lansdale 329 Prop LLC and Lincoln Liquor LLC against Hartford Underwriters Insurance Company and THE Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. on April 27.
HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania is due to hear arguments this week centered on a care facility ownership group’s desire to arbitrate an action between itself and the estate of a deceased former resident.
PHILADELPHIA – A Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) flagman alleges his employer violated the Federal Employers Liability Act through its conduct in allowing a fallen stop sign to cause him to suffer severe leg injuries, while the agency argues that it is immune from the litigation.
Two Philadelphia restaurants, J.H.S.K, Inc. and Osaka Japan Restaurant, Inc., both doing business as Osaka, and their owner, have agreed to a consent judgment ordering them to pay $935,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 201 employees for willful violations of the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The employers must also pay a $65,000 civil money penalty.
