PHILADELPHIA – A former teacher and member of the LGBTQ community, who claimed she faced discrimination and retaliation by the School District of Philadelphia before being fired and lost her case through summary judgment dismissal, has appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jean Coulter against James P. Coulter on Jan. 5.
PHILADELPHIA – The School District of Philadelphia has won summary judgment dismissal in a lawsuit brought by a former teacher and member of the LGBTQ community who claimed she faced discrimination and retaliation by the District before being fired.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has dismissed without prejudice litigation from the parents of a Springfield High School senior student who committed suicide last year, a lawsuit which alleged that both the district and school personnel’s failure to notify them of the bullying their son endured, prevented them from being able to stop his untimely death.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appellate court unanimously ruled that an amendment to the False Claims Act which lowered the burden of proof on whistleblowers does apply retroactively, to any case pending when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that the amendment was designed to cover.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge granted permission to the Marriott International hotel chain to file related litigation against a series of third-party defendants in a sexual abuse survivor’s pending case against the hotel company.
PHILADELPHIA – Citing the expiration of the relevant three-year statute of limitations, a federal judge recently dismissed a sexual abuse survivor’s human trafficking allegations against the Marriott International hotel chain under Pennsylvania state law.
PHILADELPHIA – A retaliation lawsuit filed by three Oley Valley High School students after a dispute with a teacher led to them being removed from a school play they were cast in has been settled for $100,000.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge recently rendered moot a motion to dismiss from Marriott, which had refuted a sexual abuse survivor’s allegations that it benefited from and participated in sex trafficking activities at its hotels.
A now decade-long Philadelphia-based union local's claims that a Lititz contractor underpaid workers for electrical jobs during a federally funded Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) project now awaits the outcome of a special master's findings.
As a result, Judge Mark A. Kearney of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ordered the county to pay one of the inmates $500 and her lawyer fees of $6,571.20 on July 11.
On August 2, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge granted an injunctive order against Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Secretary of the Department of Labor, ordering the secretary to stop preventing and delaying a construction project.
PHILADELPHIA — The case of a Pennsylvania woman with ovarian cancer against defendants that include an East Pennsboro Township-based pharmaceutical company is on its way back to state court after a federal judge last month rejected an attempt to move it to his jurisdiction.
PHILADELPHIA – Teva Pharmaceuticals is now on the hook to pay in excess of $455,000 in legal bills to one of its former senior executives who successfully sued it for retaliation.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Linda Wall and Robert Wall against Altium Group LLC and Corona Capital LLC on Feb. 5: 'Order Approving 136 Stipulation Filed By Robert Wall And Linda Wall. Summary Judgment Due By 2/11/2019; Response To Summary Judgment Due By 2/22/2019. Signed By Judge Mark A. Kearney On 2/5/2019. (kly)'.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Robert Wall and Linda Wall against Corona Capital LLC and Altium Group LLC on Jan. 15: 'Order: Summary Judgment Due By 2/7/2019. Responses To Summary Judgment Due By 2/22/2019. Signed By Judge Mark A. Kearney On 1/15/2019. (kly)'
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Robert Wall and Linda Wall against Corona Capital LLC and Altium Group LLC on Jan. 14: 'Minute Entry For Proceedings Held Before Judge Mark A. Kearney: Telephone Conference Held On 1/14/2019. (court Reporter: None) (kly)'
