SCRANTON – Litigation by a medical center that claimed its landlord failed to repair the sprinkler system in its leased tenant space, leaving it at tremendous risk for physical damage and loss of life in the event of a fire, has been discontinued.
SCRANTON – A state court judge has granted a preliminary injunction and compelled the landlord for a Scranton medical center to repair the sprinkler system in its leased space, incur the cost for doing so and further stayed a notice of default the landlord sought to levy over the medical center.
SCRANTON – A medical center claims its landlord has failed to repair the sprinkler system in its leased tenant space, leaving it at tremendous risk for physical damage and loss of life in the event of a fire.
WASHINGTON – According to data just released by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Treasury Department, 73 Pennsylvania law firms received government loans of at least $1 million while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, including some of the state’s most influential plaintiffs’ firms.
PHILADELPHIA – A company that manages residential mortgage investment funds has agreed to mutually end litigation against a rival company and an ex-employee for allegedly misusing the company’s trade secrets and confidential information.
PHILADELPHIA – The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office is the first county entity in the state to take legal action against vaping products manufacturer JUUL, claiming its business practices have led to an epidemic of minors who have become “nicotine addicts.”
WILLIAMSPORT – An Indiana trailer manufacturer is attempting to move a lawsuit filed by a Lackawanna County auto body and sales business to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit brought by a Montgomery County law firm to recover more than $150,000 in counsel and other fees from the current chief executive officer of Mobilactive and the one-time executive vice president and general counsel of Comcast Corporation will not be remanded to state court.
On November 15, 2018, the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation and Pennsylvania Bar Association honored Senator Stewart Greenleaf for his “remarkable” forty years of public service, including his thirty years of leadership on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
SCRANTON – The wrongful termination case of Luzerne County’s former Human Resources Director, whose federal causes of action were dismissed by a federal judge in March and failed to be reconsidered in May, will now have its state law-based charges heard in a Lackawanna County court.
Elliott Greenleaf won dismissal with prejudice for the Philadelphia Land Bank against the claims of a developer alleging that the Land Bank violated constitutional rights when the Land Bank accepted a competing developer’s bid to purchase certain properties in Philadelphia’s Point Breeze area.
Healthcare company accuses law firm of negligencePHILADELPHIA — A healthcare company is suing Whatley Kallas, LLP; Whatley Kallas, LLC; and Consumer Watchdog, law firm, citing alleged breach of duty and liability.AETNA Inc. filed a complaint on May 23, in the U.S.
PHILADELPHIA – A Montgomery County law firm is pursuing the recovery of more than $150,000 in counsel and other fees from the current chief executive officer of Mobilactive and the one-time executive vice-president and general counsel of Comcast Corporation.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court has determined that a lower court erroneously threw out a motion to dismiss before properly resolving a separate motion to compel arbitration in a payroll dispute litigation.
PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Superior Court on April 3 upheld a lower court’s judgment in a licensing agreement dispute between a pharmaceutical company and the creators of a drug technology.
WILKES-BARRE – A state court judge cited Pennsylvania’s Right To Farm Act (RTFA) in recently dismissing a case from neighbors who filed a lawsuit over the use of liquid swine manure as part of the defendants' farming operations.
SCRANTON – A pair of New Jersey-based print and graphics communications companies believe two of its former employees and a Pennsylvania project management company deliberately interfered with their ability to transact business.
