PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit filed in federal court is looking to compel Pennsylvania election officials to change how voters’ signatures are verified on mail-in ballots, arguing that the votes of thousands of people may otherwise be invalidated in this year’s Presidential election.
SCRANTON – Workers at a meatpacking plant in Northeastern Pennsylvania allege not only a failure by their company to protect its workers from contracting the coronavirus, but a response from federal government agencies denying the issue as “arbitrary and capricious.”
HARRISBURG – Two separate multi-state coalitions of Democratic attorneys general are suing the United States Postal Service, in order to challenge nationwide operational changes that they allege may harm the process of voting by mail prior to the Presidential election in November.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for Scott Township and one of its commissioners allege that “vague and illusory” claims from a Western Pennsylvania real estate company, its owner and his sister-in-law should be grounds to dismiss a disability discrimination lawsuit filed against them.
PITTSBURGH – A West Elizabeth man says he was fired from a water and sewer authority when he refused to follow a directive that he alleges would have resulted in raw sewage being illegally dumped into the Monongahela River.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County authorities are seeking to dismiss 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.
HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that testimony from a plaintiff’s physician did not cause a Philadelphia jury to wrongly find in favor of a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, in a pelvic mesh personal injury case decided last year.
PITTSBURGH – A battle over a $300,000 escrow deposit between a New York buyer and the owners of The Priory Hotel in Pittsburgh has reached a Pennsylvania state court.
PHILADELPHIA – Urban Outfitters wants to see dismissed a lawsuit brought by a New York fashion rental company who alleged it ended merger talks and stole the plaintiff’s proprietary concept for a women’s clothing rental business for itself.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a pair of Jenkintown residents, including a former mayoral candidate, which alleged that town’s Borough Manager and other officials retaliated against them through a series of bogus zoning code violations.
ALLENTOWN – The Easton Area School District is seeking to dismiss various counts from a lawsuit filed by an ex-varsity high school wrestling coach who alleged he faced discriminatory and racist conduct, including being fired, because he is Black.
PHILADELPHIA – A wrapping device manufacturer argues that a woman suing it for liability connected to her severe hand injuries was instead contributorily negligent and responsible for her own accident using the wrapper.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has denied the opportunity to reconsider the decision to remand a personal injury case resulting from a slip-and-fall at an Amazon facility, claiming that one of the defendant parties cannot introduce a new argument at this stage of the litigation.
SCRANTON – The state’s high school sports governing body argues it did not violate the rights of Dunmore School District when it reclassified its high school girls’ basketball program to another level of athletic competition.
PITTSBURGH – A youth football league has availed itself of all liability as to claims brought by a concession stand volunteer, who claims she suffered third-degree burns within minutes of handling French fries when working at one of the league’s games.
HARRISBURG – Republican politicians in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives say they were justified in firing one of their former photographers for legitimate reasons and not for the unlawful reason he cites, which was his practice of the Islamic faith.
PITTSBURGH – A western Pennsylvania theme park that argued in a motion for summary judgment that its whitewater rapids ride cannot be the cause of a Pittsburgh man’s permanent, parasite-related eye damage has had that motion denied.
MEDIA – Litigation from an energy drink company that endorsed a UFC fighter, and then claimed it was blackmailed by his management company to pay more than $100,000 for allegedly violating the endorsement agreement has been discontinued.
