PHILADELPHIA – The former chief marketing officer for a Philadelphia law firm who alleged she was fired when she complained of supposed racially discriminatory practices within the firm to higher management, has settled her claims.
PHILADELPHIA – A florist has brought a defamation suit in response to poor reviews of his business and business practices which were posted on Facebook, alleging that the criticism had harmed his personal and professional reputation, besides being tantamount to invasion of privacy.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will now consider whether or not it is constitutional for out-of-state companies to accept jurisdiction under Pennsylvania law as a mandate for doing business in the Commonwealth, an outcome sure to have tremendous ramifications on litigation both statewide and nationwide.
HARRISBURG – The Gap has won consolidation of separate lawsuits concerning the same incident, where several Derry Township police officers allegedly committed wrongful arrest and process by profiling and taking into custody Black women shopping at the store for supposed theft, before later releasing them when it was learned that they had in fact committed no crime.
HARRISBURG – More than three dozen comic creators have countered a Pennsylvania publisher’s dismissal motion towards their class action claims, suggesting that jurisdiction is correct on the federal court level given the large amount in collective damages they are seeking.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has partially granted a stay to two police defendants from their involvement in the civil rights violation case of a man who argues he was erroneously convicted of three murders, for which he served 28 years in prison – since they feel their testimony may be used against them in another criminal case.
MEDIA – After the parents of a 13-year-old child who drowned at Folcroft Swim Club more than two years ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility, they add that, in separate-but-related litigation brought by the facility’s insurance carrier, the insurer has a responsibility to provide coverage in this matter.
PHILADELPHIA – Two officials from the Philadelphia Flyers are now suing the hockey team and others in state court, charging that incurable diseases the men developed resulted from their exposure to cancer-causing chemicals emitted from the Zamboni machines used to clean the ice in between periods.
MEDIA – A state court judge has denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings and/or dismissal, in a case from a former member of the Borough of Eddystone’s Civil Service Commission who claimed he was removed from that post and defamed during a council meeting by the mayor and a councilperson regarding his alleged criminal record, which he stated does not exist.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for a local rehabilitation center for delinquent youth continues to insist that sexual assault litigation filed against their clients by a Western Pennsylvania man should be transferred to a Forest County court.
PITTSBURGH – Clairton City School District has re-argued that a lawsuit filed by a former administrative employee alleging that she faced racial discrimination in her time working there, failed to state claims upon which relief could be granted and did not show that the plaintiff is entitled to punitive damages.
PHILADELPHIA – A sitting Philadelphia judge has brought legal action against online news outlet The Daily Beast, charging it defamed her and damaged her standing as a jurist, when it printed that she was aligned with the QAnon group.
HARRISBURG – A Black-owned EMS ambulance company in Western Pennsylvania has voluntarily dismissed its own litigation against a host of medical professionals and health care companies, which alleged it faced a conspiracy of racial discrimination on the part of the defendants.
PITTSBURGH – A proprietor defendant named under Dram Shop liability, in a wrongful death case surrounding a drunk driving accident which killed the plaintiff’s 23-year-old daughter, denies that she overserved the intoxicated driver with alcohol her prior to the crash.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has thrown out a count for reckless investigation, in a lawsuit brought by a Western Pennsylvania man who alleged that his civil rights were violated when he was arrested for allegedly molesting and raping his stepdaughter, charges which he claimed are untrue and were recanted by the girl.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman who claimed that a local contractor’s negligence in piercing an underground gas main and failing to report the subsequent leak led to the death of her mother from exposure to the gas, has reiterated her claims in response to the company’s denials of liability.
ALLENTOWN – Authorities in the Owen J. Roberts School District have denied allegations that they failed to protect a Chester Springs woman from being molested by her philosophy teacher when she was a high school student in 2020.
PHILADELPHIA – Defendants named in a Florida man’s lawsuit over the alleged inequitable distribution of assets from his mother’s will to himself and his two siblings, have countered that the plaintiff’s suit fails to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.
