PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County insists that it did not violate its own Home Rule Charter and Administrative Code and that it is immune from a count of negligent infliction of emotional distress, in a lawsuit over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate allegedly violating a plaintiff’s religious objections.
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PITTSBURGH – A local woman alleges that a restaurant was negligent in placing a wire bread rack on its premises, causing her to trip and fall during a visit to that same restaurant nearly a year and a half ago.
SCRANTON – Counsel for a South Carolina who claimed that using a hair dye product sold by a Nevada beauty company caused her to suffer a chemical burn on the back of her head, argues that it effectuated proper service of the plaintiff’s complaint.
MEDIA – An Upper Darby hookah lounge and its owner have denied responsibility for injuries a Florida woman claims she sustained, when she was allegedly and violently assaulted by members of its staff.
SCRANTON – Counsel for a South Carolina woman, in a case alleging that a hair dye product she purchased caused her to suffer a chemical burn on the back of her head, has countered a motion to dismiss the related suit by arguing that proper service of the complaint was made and by removing an anonymous defendant.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man witnessed yelling about former President Donald Trump while listening to his car radio and stopped at an intersection last September, maintains that Millcreek Township police officers then appeared at his residence and unlawfully arrested him for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
HARRISBURG – A Maryland woman who alleged that the organizing companies of the York State Fair were negligent in failing to prevent her injuries when a passing thunderstorm caused her to be hit by a metal object when she was attending the fair, has seen her case remanded to a Pennsylvania state court.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County couple maintain that the wife-plaintiff fell inside a Kohl’s department store in Monroeville, allegedly due to the company’s negligence.
MEDIA – Just days before three former Borough of Sharon Hill police officers were sentenced to house arrest and probation for their involvement in a shooting which killed an 8-year-old girl in August 2021, a Delaware County judge upheld the denial of releasing the full and unredacted version of the Borough’s report on its community policing procedures to a local citizen advocate.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny General Hospital and its parking garage deny allegations from a Pittsburgh couple, who claimed one of the defendants’ employees negligently allowed a parking gate arm to fall and strike the wife-plaintiff on the head, causing her severe injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – Airbnb is seeking to dismiss or stay all proceedings in the case of a South Philly landlord whose property sustained extensive damages in 2020, allegedly from a renter-turned-squatter who then subletted the residential space.
PHILADELPHIA – A California woman has settled her case against a King of Prussia beauty salon, which claimed she developed a staph infection due to the salon’s unsanitary practices.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County judge has declined to strike punitive damages from a lawsuit brought by a tenant against their apartment complex, arguing that its alleged negligence caused them to fall on an icy sidewalk and fracture one of their lumbar vertebrae.
PITTSBURGH – A Glassport church and its community food bank have denied responsibility for the alleged molestation of two young women volunteering for those groups by a fellow parishioner.
LANCASTER – Litigation brought by two shoppers allegedly injured while escaping from a shooting incident at the Park City Mall a year and a half ago, has seen a stipulation approved whereby one of the plaintiffs will be dismissed from the case due to a past diagnosis of dementia.
PITTSBURGH – A North Braddock cemetery holds that it conducted a proper burial for a plaintiff’s deceased wife, and did not fail to alleviate the plaintiff’s subsequent concerns and/or requests for correction in that regard.
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh man maintains that due to his apartment building owner’s negligence, he suffered a fall on an icy sidewalk and fractured one of his lumbar vertebrae – standing in opposition to the owner’s preliminary objections, which he says have no basis in law.
PHILADELPHIA – The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has denied liability for the death of one of its former conductors from COVID-19, charging his estate has failed to properly plead such a claim.
PHILADELPHIA – The case of a man who spent over 12 years in prison for murder and was later exonerated, who then sued the City of Philadelphia and a former Philadelphia Police Department detective whom he alleges sexually assaulted him, has now been consolidated with other actions against that same, now-incarcerated former detective.
