PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has recused himself from a class action lawsuit from a pair of Pennsylvania residents against Chipotle Mexican Grill, which claimed that the chain restaurant fails to provide proper amounts of change to its customers in exchange for purchased food.
HARRISBURG – In the wake of increasing cases statewide, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19, stating he is not symptomatic and quarantining at home after receiving his test result.
PITTSBURGH – A Monroeville nursing home facility says that Pennsylvania’s at-will employment status bars the violation of public policy claim brought by 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.
SCRANTON – A federal judge has denied the attempt of Dunmore School District to secure an injunction over the reclassification of high school girls’ basketball program by a state athletic group.
HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has reversed an order of summary judgment granted to Dollar General and its store cashier, in the case of a man who alleged he was falsely arrested and imprisoned after he challenged the amount of change he received.
HARRISBURG – A Wisconsin-based employment staffing company says it is not responsible for damages suffered by a temp employee placed in a Starbucks roasting plant in York, who alleged she was subjected to a racially hostile work environment and then terminated unlawfully.
WASHINGTON – In the latest annual report of “Judicial Hellholes” released today by the American Tort Reform Association, Pennsylvania courts have taken the No. 1 ranking for the second consecutive year – due to high-dollar mass tort verdicts, expanding medical liability litigation and a lower reliability standard for expert witness evidence, among other issues.
PITTSBURGH – The son and daughter of a deceased Western Pennsylvania man claim their mother and brother defrauded them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement funds received in an underlying wrongful death lawsuit involving their father.
WILLIAMSPORT – A federal judge has upheld the suspension of a high school football player and top state-ranked wrestler, imposed for violations of the Southern Columbia Area School District’s drug and alcohol policy for students.
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed legislation passed by the General Assembly which extended immunity protections from liability connected to COVID-19 to a diverse array of health care entities and other businesses.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal court has rejected the claims of a Black SEPTA bus driver who says he was racially discriminated against, when he was terminated after striking a pedestrian on the job.
PHILADELPHIA – A pair of West Chester residents have filed suit against their municipality and its mayor and challenged the constitutionality of their emergency declaration orders issued during the coronavirus pandemic, while the mayor believes the litigation is borne out of a desire for political gain.
WILLIAMSPORT – Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s campaign are seeking permission to file a second amended version of a lawsuit that alleges unfair and unconstitutional election procedures in Pennsylvania caused the president to lose the state in the 2020 Presidential Election.
PHILADELPHIA – A pair of West Chester residents have filed suit against their municipality and its mayor and challenged the constitutionality of their emergency declaration orders issued during the coronavirus pandemic, while the mayor believes the litigation is borne out of a desire for political gain.
WILLIAMSPORT – An amended version of a lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s campaign has walked back claims that Republican observers were not allowed to properly view the counting of ballots in highly Democratic areas of Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG – Prior to an upcoming hearing regarding a preliminary injunction requested by four Pennsylvania citizens suing a trio of top state officials over the state’s “unconstitutional” mask mandate, the parties are grappling over whether plaintiffs suffered irreparable harm.
HARRISBURG – The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled Thursday afternoon that Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar lacked authority to extend a deadline for mail-in voters to show proof of identification by three days, and those voters’ ballots would not be counted.
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia and its Department of Licenses and Inspections is again attempting to dismiss with prejudice a class action lawsuit which alleges it attempts to generate additional revenue for the City by issuing excessive fines on a daily basis, for both failure to state a claim and through arguing a previously-decided state court ruling should bar the instant case.
MEDIA – A plaintiff alleges that he suffered grievous injuries after a wood chipper he purchased had malfunctioned and shot a heavy-gauge steel component at him, due to alleged negligence and improper modification of the device by the companies who sold it to him.
NORRISTOWN – Republican Congressional candidate Kathy Barnette has abandoned litigation against Montgomery County, which had alleged its Board of Elections illegally canvassed mail-in ballots received before Election Day and wrongly gave voters with defective ballots an opportunity to cure them.
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