JOHNSTOWN – A suit brought by a Penn State University campus police officer whose employment was terminated after it was revealed he was colorblind has been settled.
Across the country, companies are resolving to increase diversity and inclusion in the workplace and fight racial inequality in American society through corporate commitments to decrease racial disparities, rethinking the composition of their workforce and suppliers, and increasing diversity among their boards of directors.
The Delaware Riverkeeper Network filed a motion for summary judgment against Sunoco Pipeline for not attaining a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for their Mariner East II Pipeline Project (ME2), presuming Sunoco was violating the Clean Water Act.
JOHNSTOWN – Penn State University’s denial of employment to a campus police officer is predicated on his colorblindness being a potential threat to the health and safety of the university, the school said in response to the officer’s lawsuit.
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation has been settled involving a transgender inmate who sued a correctional facility and its officers after the defendants allegedly failed to protect her from being raped nearly a dozen times.
PHILADELPHIA – An inmate who sued the City of Philadelphia and several corrections officers in claiming they failed to protect him from a prison rape, has settled his case.
PITTSBURGH — The Sierra Club has filed suit against NRG Power Midwest claiming the company's coal-fired generating station is discharging heated wastewater into the Allegheny River in violation of its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit.
Multiple environment organizations who filed similar lawsuits against an energy company had their complaints consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on July 31.
PHILADELPHIA — A subsidiary of World Wrestling Entertainment is suing eight unknown internet users, citing alleged copyright infringement for illegally sharing a movie.
HARRISBURG - Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Coalition for Civil Justice Reform opened its doors in Harrisburg under the leadership of former state House member from Chester County and long-time advocate Curt Schroder.
PHILADELPHIA – The United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia have filed litigation against a contractor and materials producer they allege contaminated waterways in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia during the course of its construction activities between 2004 and 2006.
HARRISBURG - Following years of inspections and investigations into the management of waste and storm water in the Susquehanna River and Paxton Creek, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement agreement with the City of Harrisburg and Capital Region Water that will take an aggressive approach to repairing the problems.
