PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has nullified an entry of default against a hotel management company, which had been originally levied due to its non-response to a wrongful termination suit filed by a former hotel director.
PHILADELPHIA – A judge has ruled that a plaintiff did not have permission of the Court to amend a portion of his complaint and violated a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, which resulted in those portions being stricken.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied a plaintiff’s motion to find his former company in civil contempt, for its chief executive officer allegedly not responding to an order to answer post-judgment interrogatories.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia court dismissed a count of corporate negligence against Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital in a medical malpractice action, citing insufficiently-filed Certificates of Merit (COMs).
PHILADELPHIA – A judge remanded a plaintiff’s personal injury litigation against a Philadelphia discount grocery store after the defendants did not show the amount in controversy in the suit was more than the minimum amount it needed to remain in federal court.
PHILADELPHIA – According to the decision of a federal court here, Verizon Wireless successfully motioned to dismiss breach of contract claims from an investment firm who believed they violated the terms of a rental lease agreement.
PHILADELPHIA – On June 28, a federal judge denied a motion to sever and dismiss claims from an insurance subrogation case tied to damages in seven separate incidents resulting from faulty lawnmowers.
PHILADELPHIA – Mother and daughter plaintiffs who accused officers from the Philadelphia Police Department of unlawful arrest, malicious prosecution, excessive force and other charges in connection with an incident at a city gentleman’s club, have lost those claims in federal court.
PHILADELPHIA – On June 7, a federal judge ruled a plaintiff has in fact stated a valid claim for violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (PMWA), when he accused his former employer of failing to compensate him with overtime pay.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal court has rejected a May 26 motion for reconsideration connected to a dismissal of a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty filed against Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 380 and the Union’s Trustees of the Health, Welfare and Pension Plans.
A federal court granted a motion of partial summary judgment to State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, which sought to establish it had no obligation to defend a policyholder involved in an underlying lawsuit related to a bar fight.
PHILADELPHIA – Last Friday, a Philadelphia federal court entered a default judgment in the favor of the Laborers’ District Council of the Metropolitan Area of Philadelphia and Vicinity and its various Benefit Funds, who sought damages and equitable relief under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA).
PHILADELPHIA – A permanent injunction has been granted in a patent infringement case, where a federal judge said the plaintiff demonstrated the issuing of such an injunction was “in the public’s interest.”
PHILADELPHIA – A former mail clerk from the United States Postal Service (USPS) who alleged discrimination and wrongful termination against the agency has had her claim defeated in federal court, due to not exhausting her administrative remedies.
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty filed against Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 380 and the Union’s Trustees of the Health, Welfare and Pension Plans.
A federal court has determined a Pennsauken, N.J., woman’s allegations of sex discrimination and race discrimination against her former employer will proceed.
PHILADELPHIA – An insurance company did not act in bad faith when it represented the interests of a defendant in a prior lawsuit with one of its former employees, a federal court ruled Monday.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal court has ruled a Philadelphia firefighter will not be permitted to renege on a previously reached settlement agreement, in order to effect further modifications to it.
A plaintiff who felt she was retaliated against and unjustly terminated for blowing the whistle on a manager’s improper recording of a colleague’s time card has had her case dismissed in federal court.
