PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ruled that additional attorney fees’ and expenses totaling nearly $350,000 will be awarded to a plaintiff who garnered a $1 million settlement from NJ Transit, for alleged violations of the Federal Rail Safety Act.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a steel slag processing facility accused in a class action lawsuit of releasing damaging, fugitive dust and air particulates onto the properties of local homeowners object to the action, arguing it is only based in private nuisance, and no other claims of trespass, public nuisance and negligence.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Clairton has filed preliminary objections to a lawsuit brought by a Clairton municipal service provider and two borough citizens regarding its acquisition of the sewer system, alleging its claims have been insufficiently pled.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied a motion to remand a class action lawsuit to state court, one brought by a Pittsburgh man who alleged Walmart unlawfully overcharges its customers taxes on the sale of dietary products.
PHILADELPHIA – An election challenge case brought by President Donald Trump has been voluntarily dismissed by his remaining legal counsel, just after one of his attorneys withdrew his representation and claimed he was “used to perpetrate a crime.”
SCRANTON – A Walmart employee has apparently settled claims over right ankle, knee and calf injuries he suffered when he fell on the job, allegedly due to the negligent actions of a tractor-trailer driver.
PHILADELPHIA – A former Thomas Jefferson University hospital employee who alleged her legitimate use of medical marijuana led to her dismissal from the facility has been permitted to proceed with her case.
MEDIA – A New Jersey auctioneer denies liability for injuries sustained by a Delaware County man who was hit with debris from a wood chipper and then sued the companies who sold him the device, while levying cross-claims and counterclaims against its co-defendants.
SCRANTON – New York plaintiffs who brought suit against a whitewater rafting company for negligent infliction of emotional distress after the death of their brother and son during a rafting trip on the Lehigh River two years ago, are now seeking to throw out the rafting company’s motion to dismiss the suit.
PITTSBURGH – A teacher has alleged that three Pennsylvania school districts have violated the Criminal History Record Information Act, by denying his application to work as a substitute teacher on the basis of a groundless arrest on his record from 55 years ago.
PITTSBURGH – An organization promoting the teaching of Christianity through literacy has settled legal action with its former President and Director of Children’s Literacy Ministry, after claiming they did not return essential materials to the group after their termination.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied an attempt from the Environmental Protection Agency to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, over the implementation of a specific tenet of the Clean Water Act.
PITTSBURGH – A wrongful termination suit from a man who claims he was fired from a water and sewer authority when he refused to dump raw sewage into the Monongahela River is the burden of the West Elizabeth Sanitary Authority, according to Union Township.
PITTSBURGH – A Monroeville nursing home facility says that a former administrator who reported positive COVID-19 diagnoses at the facility to both county and state health authorities – and believes he was fired in retaliation – did not show he engaged in protected activity under the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Act.
HARRISBURG – After a federal judge’s recent rejection of their bid to prevent enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf’s face mask mandate statewide and the state’s contact tracking system for COVID-19, two Pennsylvania couples have appealed the denial to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
PHILADELPHIA – A panel trio of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed a federal court’s denial of a motion to reconsider a personal injury complaint, brought by a man who claimed injury from a cervical medical device used on him during spinal surgery.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has dismissed a bad faith claim alleged against GEICO Insurance Company, in the wake of a passenger injured in an accident and who was denied payment of underinsured motorist benefits.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Clairton is petitioning to send a lawsuit regarding its acquisition of the sewer system, brought by a Clairton municipal service provider and two borough citizens, to the local county court’s Commerce and Complex Litigation Center.
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for the Borough of West Chester have countered a lawsuit filed against the municipality and its mayor which challenges the constitutionality of their emergency declaration orders issued during the coronavirus pandemic, as one which would “compromise” relief efforts against COVID-19.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County’s Health Department is looking to dismiss a complaint filed by a Pittsburgh restaurant which sued it for its allegedly unconstitutional enforcement of COVID-19 emergency orders and further stop it from being sent to bankruptcy court.
