Judge Paul S. Diamond
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Judges- State Circuit/County
601 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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PHILADELPHIA – For the second time, social media app TikTok is requesting a stay of survival and wrongful death litigation brought against it by the mother of a 10-year-old child who died in December due to attempting a “Blackout Challenge”.
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PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a former student who was attacked by a classmate in his special academic program and the Haverford Area School District has been settled.
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PHILADELPHIA – The widow of a meatpacking supervisor for Tyson Foods who brought litigation against the company in claiming that its deficient precautions to protect against COVID-19 led to her husband’s death from the disease last year, has seen her case dismissed by a federal judge.
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PHILADELPHIA – The widow of a meatpacking supervisor for Tyson Foods who brought litigation against the company, alleging that its deficient precautions to protect against COVID-19 led to her husband’s death from the disease last year, will not see her case remanded to state court.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge recently ordered that litigation between a former student who was attacked by a classmate in his special academic program and the Haverford Area School District has been stayed, pending its resolution through settlement.
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PHILADELPHIA – A Chester County woman who alleged that a local school district did not warn her that she was assigned to work with a student who had shown violent behavior, and as a result, that student attacked and injured her, has settled her claims with the district.
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PHILADELPHIA – Delaware County and a local senior care facility are appealing the defeat of their dismissal motion in a wrongful death lawsuit, filed by the surviving children of a man who died from COVID-19 while under the facility’s care, to a Washington, D.C. federal appellate court.
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PHILADELPHIA – A group of Bucks County parents to children with disabilities have brought a federal court lawsuit to ensure that the Central Bucks School District provides reasonable accommodations to disabled students by implementing a COVID-19 health and safety plan aligned with current federal, state and local guidance.
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PHILADELPHIA – Downingtown Area School District claims that a school counselor’s litigation, alleging it was negligent in failing to warn her of her work with a student who had shown violent behavior, both fails to state a claim and is barred by official and qualified immunity.
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PHILADELPHIA – The Haverford Area School District answers that a failure to exhaust administrative remedies and abide by the statute of limitations should bar litigation from a former student who was attacked by a classmate in his special academic program.
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PHILADELPHIA – A class action lawsuit against a New Jersey food distributor over the allegedly deceptive characterization of its vanilla-flavored almond milk has been discontinued.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has denied the attempt of a local school district to dismiss litigation from a Chester County woman, who alleged the school did not warn her that she would be working with a student who had shown violent behavior, before he attacked her.
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PHILADELPHIA – Counsel in a class action lawsuit brought by a man arrested for public intoxication and subjected to a strip search by the Chester Police Department later deemed to be illegal by a federal judge, are seeking an award of $275,000 in attorney’s fees as part of a finalized settlement in the case.
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PHILADELPHIA – A class action lawsuit brought by a man arrested for public intoxication and subjected to a strip search by the Chester Police Department later deemed to be illegal by a federal judge has been preliminarily settled.
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PHILADELPHIA – An election challenge case brought by President Donald Trump has been voluntarily dismissed by his remaining legal counsel, just after one of his attorneys withdrew his representation and claimed he was “used to perpetrate a crime.”
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PHILADELPHIA – After a finding of default, a Philadelphia social club accused of discriminating through its membership application process against prospective Black members has now requested that same default be set aside.
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PHILADELPHIA – With the case set to press on after a harsh ruling from the judge hearing it, the law firm Hagens Berman has reached a settlement with a disgruntled former client.
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PHILADELPHIA – A man arrested for public intoxication who was subsequently strip-searched by the Chester Police Department is looking to certify his lawsuit as class action litigation, according to a recent filing.
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PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for both a man arrested for public intoxication who was subsequently strip searched and the City of Chester have mutually agreed to dismiss multiple counts from the plaintiff’s amended lawsuit.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ruled the City of Chester’s policy of strip searching all offenders who are charged and intended to be held in custody for any length of time was unreasonable in the case of a man arrested for public intoxication.
