PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia special education teacher has lost her case which argued she was discriminated against due to her race and disability, and suffered professional retaliation for seeking assistance for that same disability.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court denied a Pittsburgh man the opportunity to be considered a “next-friend” to alleged victims being detained and denied medical care and meals in China, Egypt and the state of Georgia by the Central Intelligence Agency.
PHILADELPHIA – A gay man who worked at a local drug rehabilitation clinic, alleged he was harassed about his sexual orientation on the job and fired after informing his superiors of said treatment settled his case last year.
A judge allowed an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by two former teachers against Friends’ Central School Corp. and others to partially continue in a ruling issued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Aug. 2.
PHILADELPHIA – A gay man who worked at a local drug rehabilitation clinic alleges he was harassed about his sexual orientation on the job and after informing his superiors of the treatment in question, was then fired as a result.
PHILADELPHIA – An Egyptian doctor and practitioner of feng shui has sued The Huffington Post, believing the online news agency libeled and defamed her through an article it published on its Arabic satellite website in September 2016.
HARRISBURG – A doctor enrolled as an internal medicine resident at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville is seeking a federal judge to waive a two-year foreign residency requirement of his exchange visitor program, and prevent his forced return to his native Egypt.
SEPTA has filed a class action suit at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pensylvania against Gilead Sciences, Inc. related to the sale and pricing of its Hepatitis-C drug, Sovaldi.
A federal judge recently upheld a jury’s verdict that determined the relatives of a former Philadelphia jeweler who was possession of 10 rare gold coins could not keep the property since the coins would not have been able to have been legitimately owned by the deceased businessman at the time he would have had them in his collection.
