Recent News About Judge Malachy E. Mannion
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SCRANTON – A federal judge has authorized a stay in litigation over the City of Pottsville’s open-burning ordinance with respect to burning flags as a method of political protest, pitting a political activist who says he was wrongfully arrested for engaging in such activity against the City.
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PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ordered that a civil rights lawsuit over an allegedly unlawful seizure of a firearms cache needs additional evidence in support of the parties’ Second Amendment arguments.
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SCRANTON – A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed against the Pike County District Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania State Police, from the parents of a man who committed a murderous attack against a state police barracks in 2014, for what they feel was an unlawful seizure of their cache of firearms.
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SCRANTON – A federal judge has granted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit from workers at a meat processing plant, litigation which alleged the agency refused to enforce COVID-19 pandemic protocols in spite of receiving complaints about the workplace situation.
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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.
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SCRANTON – Lawsuits filed by New York plaintiffs 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, have been consolidated.
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SCRANTON – CVS Pharmacy is seeking to dismiss the strict liability claim brought forward by a Northeastern Pennsylvania man, who alleged he contracted septic arthritis and a number of other injuries after receiving a Pneumovax vaccine from a store location in East Stroudsburg.
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SCRANTON – Litigation between a Narberth couple who alleged they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning during a stay at one of VRBO’s short-term rental properties and the company, HomeAway and Expedia has been preliminarily settled.
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SCRANTON – A minor who was allegedly sexually harassed and molested by a Stroudsburg Area School District music teacher and who had sued the district for its inaction in stopping the abuse and the teacher for those violations, has settled their case.
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WILKES-BARRE – A former Wilkes-Barre police officer has been sued by three Luzerne County women in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County over allegations of sexual misconduct.
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SCRANTON — A federal judge is mulling a Reading bank's request to dismiss an Auburn couple's lawsuit that claims Santander Bank failed to mark their paid loans as satisfied.
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Judge Malachy E. Mannion wrote the July 18 court opinion, adopting the recommendation from Magistrate Judge Susan E. Schwab’s to dismiss the case and grant summary judgment to the U.S. Army.
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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 24, 2018, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced William Waring and Tanay Jones, both of Bronx, New York, for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl. Waring, age 27, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and four years of supervised release following that sentence of imprisonment.
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A federal judge has ruled that Summer Study Programs Inc. must pay Penn State University nearly $320,000 for providing students with “room, board and computer access” during a summer program in 2016, according to a recent decision filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
