SCRANTON – The case brought by the estate of a man who suffered a fatal fall from a chairlift at the Blue Mountain Resort has been transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh officials have removed to federal court a lawsuit brought by a Western Pennsylvania couple against custodial and medical authorities for removing their then-eight-month-old son to foster care for two-and-a-half weeks, on the incorrect suspicion that they were the cause of his broken leg.
Last month, the United States Supreme Court finally put the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) into alignment with the rest of the executive branch of government by ruling that the CFPB Director is an at-will employee of the President of the United States.
PHILADELPHIA – Underwriters from the Lloyd’s of London insurance company are looking to shut down class action litigation brought by the Independence Beer Garden in Philadelphia, saying policy exclusions precluded the plaintiff from receiving its business interruption coverage during the coronavirus pandemic.
HARRISBURG – The Borough of Gettysburg says that a lawsuit from a local business owner who claims it retaliated against her for opposing a zoning dispute by reinstating a decades-old parking ordinance is groundless and should be thrown out.
SCRANTON – A Northeastern Pennsylvania school district is challenging the state’s high school sports governing body in court to prevent the reclassification of its girls’ basketball program.
PITTSBURGH – New counsel for a non-profit group and its president accused of violating of federal and state wiretapping laws by a Pittsburgh health care clinic and its executive director, wants postponement of an injunction hearing due to an alleged lack of both proper service of the complaint and time to prepare for the hearing.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Elizabeth Mekler and Grainger Rickenbaker against Drexel University on July 6.
PHILADELPHIA – An anesthesiologist who filed an age-based employment discrimination lawsuit against the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will not have the ability to pursue punitive damages, per decision of a federal judge.
HARRISBURG – A former Penn State University football team defensive tackle denies allegations from a former cornerback that he participated in, and the team’s head coach and the university collectively ignored, incidents of hazing and sexual harassment targeted against that same cornerback.
PITTSBURGH – A real estate lending firm alleges it was obligated to missed an opportunity to purchase a foreclosed-upon property and pay more than $7,500 in costs, as a result of professional negligence committed by its initial legal counsel.
HARRISBURG – A 5-2 majority of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that a joint resolution from state lawmakers to end the emergency declaration put in place by Gov. Tom Wolf in response to the coronavirus pandemic was null and void, since it had not been reviewed by Wolf for either his approval or veto.
PHILADELPHIA – The battle over the statue commemorating controversial former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo continues, with counsel for supporters of Rizzo filing for a temporary injunction to prevent its alteration or destruction – instances which the City of Philadelphia insists will not be taking place.
PHILADELPHIA – A New York fashion rental company claims Urban Outfitters backed away from merger talks between the two groups and then violated a non-disclosure agreement by stealing the plaintiff’s proprietary concept for a women’s clothing rental business for itself.
PITTSBURGH – A Butler woman and her husband have been ordered to comply with a plastic bag distributor and manufacturer’s discovery requests, in a lawsuit where the wife-plaintiff needed surgery to repair her finger after it was torn by a Walmart grocery bag.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for a defendant named in a lawsuit from a former postal worker who claimed he was discriminated against and fired for being gay and HIV-positive, say a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision pertaining to sex-based discrimination further bars his claims.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for a Pennsylvania man who has filed dozens of telephone consumer protection lawsuits is seeking to hold a finance firm and its principals in contempt for not abiding by post-judgment orders to compel discovery, and for those individuals to be subject to sanctions by the Court.
PITTSBURGH – The GNC health company is taking PetSmart to court over what it alleges is the latter’s failure to pay more than $1.3 million for product pursuant to a contract between the companies, as well as failing to compensate GNC for manufacturing $5 million in product according to PetSmart’s forecasts.
PHILADELPHIA – Slander and libel litigation recently filed by a nursing home management company against an Alabama woman alleged to have made a Facebook post which spread false information concerning the plaintiffs during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, has been voluntarily dismissed.
