PITTSBURGH – Litigation between a man who was fired from his job for a positive marijuana test result and a drug-testing service company that allegedly failed to provide his employer with his Medical Marijuana Card has resulted in the testing company being dismissed from the case.
PHILADELPHIA – The case of a South Dakota woman who sued home shopping magnate QVC after her 2 year-old consumed the company’s magnetic trivets and then required surgery, will not be headed to a South Dakota federal court.
PITTSBURGH – A plastic bag distributor and manufacturer have denied liability in a lawsuit brought against it by a Butler woman, who needed surgery to repair her finger after it was torn by a grocery bag and further asserted cross-claims against Walmart.
SCRANTON – A pair of former servers of a Longhorn Steakhouse restaurant in Wilkes-Barre claim they were subjected to a long line of sexual assaults on the job at the hands of the restaurant’s managing partner, and were fired when they objected to his alleged behavior.
PHILADELPHIA – Jenkintown’s Borough Manager George Locke is seeking reconsideration of a recent decision on a motion for summary judgment and qualified immunity, in a case from residents who say he and other officials retaliated against them through a series of bogus zoning code violations.
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a Pennsylvania man who has filed dozens of telephone consumer protection lawsuits is engaged in a supposed scheme to extort settlements from corporate defendants, says one of the companies he has targeted.
PHILADELPHIA – An African-American and Muslim contractor claims he was framed for materials theft by a racist employee of a business he was working at and arrested by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, despite there being no evidence he had committed any crime.
PHILADELPHIA – A stipulated protective order surrounding the distribution of mental health records requested by discovery-related subpoena has been signed by counsel for both parties, in the case of a KinderCare teacher who has been accused of taking inappropriate pictures of a student and then sharing them with other adults.
WASHINGTON – According to one Washington observer, the Philadelphia-based American Law Institute needs to remain true to its mission of distilling and clarifying law, or else strongly consider whether it is appropriate to have judges as members of its ranks.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has ordered an expedient hearing for a complaint brought by 17 plaintiffs, including four Pennsylvania counties and four members of the state House of Representatives, seeking declaratory judgments that their constitutional rights were violated by Gov. Tom Wolf’s business shutdown orders in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
PHILADELPHIA – For the second time, Penn State University and its football team’s head coach are denying allegations from a former cornerback that those entities and a former defensive tackle collectively ignored incidents of hazing and sexual harassment targeted against him.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania real estate company, its owner and his sister-in-law claim to have been harassed and received disparate treatment when applying for home demolition and construction permits, based on the owner plaintiff having a disability.
PHILADELPHIA – A pilot who sued the California airline he worked for, one he alleged subjected him to negligent, prolonged carbon monoxide exposure in the planes he was flying, is moving for a default judgment for failure to respond to his reinstated complaint.
HARRISBURG – The state Supreme Court has reversed a Commonwealth Court decision concerning a Berks County police officer who had been terminated for accessing and storing pornographic photos on the job, remanding the case to the lower court with instructions to reinstate an arbitrator’s award.
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania unanimously overturned a decision from the Commonwealth Court and agreed with the state Department of Transportation, that a former employee was rightly fired when she posted on Facebook that she would “gladly smash into a school bus.”
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ruled the City of Chester’s policy of strip searching all offenders who are charged and intended to be held in custody for any length of time was unreasonable in the case of a man arrested for public intoxication.
PHILADELPHIA – A stock clerk working at Philadelphia International Airport for American Airlines alleges the company has “created a discriminatory, hostile and bigoted environment towards its African-American employees,” in a new lawsuit.
MEDIA – Delaware County is now suing to halt the creation of a trust fund agreement connected to Aqua Pennsylvania’s recent purchase of the Delaware County Regional Water Control Authority, which would be the water’s company biggest privatization of a public water and sewer system statewide.
HARRISBURG – Seventeen plaintiffs, including four Pennsylvania counties and four members of the state House of Representatives, are seeking declaratory judgments that their constitutional rights were violated by Gov. Tom Wolf’s business shutdown orders in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
PHILADELPHIA – A former postal worker who claimed he was discriminated against and fired for being gay and HIV-positive is asking a federal judge for the ability to further probe instances of the discrimination he allegedly faced in discovery.
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