PHILADELPHIA – A Colorado-based estate is ready to settle claims that the death of a Coatesville nursing care facility resident from an inter-cranial hemorrhage nearly three years ago was the result of negligent care on the part of the facility and its staff, for $150,000.
SCRANTON – A federal judge has denied the issuance of a default judgment in consolidated litigation brought by a therapist at a Pennsylvania juvenile detention and rehabilitation facility, who claimed he faced racial discrimination and retaliation for reporting physical and mental abuse at the facility.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have now made their second attempt to dismiss litigation from AT&T, which asserted that the defendants violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by their limiting of the company’s ability to place wireless facilities on telephone poles in the City’s rights-of-way.
PHILADELPHIA – A local woman claims that a negligently-placed and overturned traffic control sign placed on a city sidewalk caused her to fall and suffer serious injuries.
PITTSBURGH – Clairton City School District argues that a lawsuit filed by a former administrative employee alleging that she faced racial discrimination in her time working there, has failed to state claims upon which relief could be granted and did not show that the plaintiff is entitled to punitive damages.
MEDIA – A Delaware County woman alleges that she was seriously injured when she fell on a deficiently maintained sidewalk along Taylor Avenue in the Borough of Morton and has filed a lawsuit.
SCRANTON – Preparation of a settlement is underway in a lawsuit between a Mississippi widower and a Mount Union company over claims concerning an allegedly defective natural gas heater which may have been responsible for the death of the plaintiff’s wife.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal discrimination case brought by two retired NFL players against the league, claiming that it manipulated cognitive function data to make it less likely Black players would receive proceeds from the 2016 concussion settlement, has been resolved.
PITTSBURGH – An Allison Park woman alleges that her mother was the recipient of sub-standard care at her nursing facility, leading her to suffer a fall that caused a cut on her head, a broken neck and a broken hip, which caused severe pain and led to her death.
PHILADELPHIA – A Penn State University student who alleged that the school rescinded her Master’s Degree more than a year and a half after she was awarded it, claiming that the plaintiff didn’t produce wholly original work, has settled her case with the school.
HARRISBURG – Derry Township and several of its police officers deny charges of wrongful arrest and process levied against them by two Black women from Harrisburg, who alleged they were profiled by the defendants at a local outlet store, accused of retail theft and arrested, before later being released when it was learned that they had in fact committed no crime.
PHILADELPHIA – Federal litigation from a local woman shopping at a suburban location of Designer Shoe Warehouse, who was injured after falling into an aisle’s endcap shelf and then brought suit against the footwear retailer, has been remanded to state court.
PITTSBURGH – A Maryland man alleges that while a juvenile resident at a local rehabilitation center for delinquent youth, he was assaulted on numerous occasions, both physically and sexually, by staff members at the facility.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has concurred with the U.S. government in believing that the Federal Tort Claims Act’s discretionary function exception (DFE) bars injury claims made by a local woman who suffered severe leg injuries in a fall over a metal barrier at Washington Square Park in Philadelphia, more than three years ago.
PITTSBURGH – A Pitcairn business owner who claimed she was targeted for racial discrimination, harassment, code violations and false prosecution by local authorities after publicly criticizing the police’s perceived use of violence on Black citizens on social media, opposes one officer’s attempt to be dismissed from the case.
