Recent News About Judge Gerald A. McHugh
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PHILADELPHIA – Frontier Airlines and one of its regional managers have settled defamation claims from a lawsuit brought by a ground contractor, allegations which the plaintiff said caused her to lose out on a position with another company.
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PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit brought against Apple and Best Buy by the parent of a minor who suffered head and burn injuries allegedly while using an iPhone 11 Pro cell phone, has been remanded to state court by a federal judge.
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PHILADELPHIA – The owner and operator of Old City Beer Garden has filed suit against the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health Office of Food Protection and its officials, claiming the organization closed his business without proper justification and violated his procedural due process.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has agreed that an insurance policy’s virus exclusion clause does in fact preclude businesses from staking a claim to income losses and expenses sustained during state-ordered shutdowns, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia federal judge has ruled that a woman who was allegedly subjected to repeated incidents of sexual harassment and filed suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress, will be permitted to proceed with her case on that charge.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge in Philadelphia has declined jurisdiction for and dismissed without prejudice a case to see if any insurance coverage exists to protect an Arizona business from income losses and expenses sustained during state-ordered shutdowns, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ruled that a longtime employee of the U.S. Postal Service who sued after being subjected to derogatory comments and physical assault when he tried to inspect the facility in his capacity as a union officer, has properly pled claims for a hostile work environment and unequal treatment based on race.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia federal court has added itself to the growing number of judiciaries ordering the U.S. Postal Service to rescind service changes it enacted this year, finding that Pennsylvania and other states would otherwise be irreparably harmed.
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PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has granted a motion to appoint the Institutional Investors Group (IIG) as lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Energy Transfer Partners and two leading executives for alleged securities fraud.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal court has thrown out the claims of a local attorney against both Amazon and the Jay-Z-founded entertainment company Roc Nation, over a supposed illegally recorded conversation in which the lawyer took his own client to task – with that same client being the judge presiding over rap music artist Meek Mill’s controversial criminal court case.
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A federal judge partially granted a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit against Amazon.com and others for wage payment violations.
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PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a former Wal-Mart assistant manager and the prominent retailer over the ex-employee claiming he was discriminated against and harassed due to his Jehovah’s Witness religious beliefs has been settled, according to court records.
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PHILADELPHIA – A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dismissed one part of the claims related to a putative class action suit against a local retail automobile dealership.
