ALLENTOWN – A Chester Springs woman accuses the Owen J. Roberts School District of failing to protect her from being molested by her philosophy teacher when she was a high school student in 2020.
SCRANTON – A federal judge has consolidated separate lawsuits 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 – A Pittsburgh man and his co-plaintiff refutes denials from his former employer and reiterate claims that he was physically assaulted by his employer, in a dispute over Payroll Protection Program funds that supposedly remained in his possession.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County police officer has denied he targeted a Pitcairn business owner with racial discrimination, harassment, code violations and false prosecution, after she publicly criticized the police’s perceived use of violence on Black citizens on social media.
MEDIA – The City of Chester has countered a petition from a Delaware County banquet hall owner who alleged that the City violated his constitutional rights by revoking a zoning permit issued to him based on erroneous information, by saying the petitioner failed to exhaust his administrative remedies.
ALLENTOWN – Subsequent to a stay related to departing counsel, a federal judge has restarted litigation between a fired office manager of Hispanic origin and her former place of business, a Philadelphia law firm – which alleged that the plaintiff and a fellow co-worker were discriminated against during their tenure because of their ethnic background.
PHILADELPHIA – East Bradford Township and one of its public works officials have denied being responsible for claims of retaliation and civil rights violations, brought by a former employee who alleged he was fired for reporting dangerous conditions relating to decaying tree limbs in the municipality.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has remanded to state court the case of a local woman who claimed she suffered extensive knee and back injuries when she slipped and fell on a section of walkway in the lot of a UPS building in Philadelphia last year.
ALLENTOWN – For jurisdictional reasons, Pennsylvania State Police defendants are looking to dismiss litigation filed by a New Jersey man who alleged he was falsely accused of stealing a wallet at a Bethlehem casino on account of his Hispanic heritage, and imprisoned for three days by both the Bethlehem Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.
ERIE – A Western Pennsylvania man who suffered severe injuries to his teeth after being struck by a baseball nearly nine years ago claims that Little League Baseball promised him and his family that its insurance would cover his full medical damages and later reneged on that promise.
SCRANTON – A man with a supposed history of violent behavior towards his colleagues and who allegedly assaulted a licensed practical nurse at work, denies the allegations against him and has motioned for punitive damages to be stricken from the case.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia woman who is now an adult and claimed that she was both physically and emotionally abused as a child, during the span of time she was placed in a foster home by city entities, has settled her claims.
PITTSBURGH – Four members of a non-profit organization seeking to increase civic engagement in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have brought legal action, after they claim the group violated its by-laws through not scheduling its annual meeting to vote on new members of the Board of Directors.
PHILADELPHIA – The MyLife.com website wants to dismiss litigation from a Bucks County man and fencing instruction facility through summary judgment, arguing that the matter should be governed by an arbitration agreement contained in the site’s terms and conditions.
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.
PITTSBURGH – Westmoreland County authorities have been granted a confidential protective order surrounding certain elements of discovery, in a harassment and professional retaliation suit from the former warden of the county’s prison.
PHILADELPHIA – A Florida man has filed a lawsuit seeking to redress a grievance surrounding the alleged inequitable distribution of assets from his mother’s will to himself and his two siblings, one of whom is a defendant.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County officials have denied claims from a Seattle-based, non-denominational church that alleged those officials are misusing a Pennsylvania law to avoid solemnizing legal marriages in the Commonwealth.
