ALLENTOWN – An office manager of Hispanic origin has reiterated allegations that she and a fellow co-worker were discriminated against by a Philadelphia law firm because of their ethnic background and when she spoke out against the unfair treatment, she was fired.
ALLENTOWN – A New Jersey woman who suffered a broken elbow in the parking lot of a Lancaster County mountain retreat and alleged that the facility’s negligence in its maintenance and upkeep was responsible for the incident, has settled her claims with the retreat.
PHILADELPHIA – A trio of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously reinstated a retaliation claim from a Caucasian, ex-corrections officer allegedly fired for filing a complaint against his supervisor, who had referred to his biracial grandniece as a “little monkey.”
MEDIA – A wrongful death lawsuit accuses a number of Delaware County health entities of improper care, in the case of a pregnant woman who was given an epidural injection to assist in the birthing process, but which instead caused fatal injuries.
PITTSBURGH – On the eve of the Center for Disease Control’s eviction moratorium order’s expiration, a landlord advocacy group is seeking an injunction to stay any formal action related to the City of Pittsburgh’s temporary eviction measure enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic – until its pending lawsuit against both the City and its City Council is resolved.
LANCASTER – Attorneys for a local Best Western resort intend to pursue a judgment of non pros, in a Parkesburg couple’s lawsuit that the hotel was negligent in using an elevated platform stage without railings and caused one of the plaintiffs to fall from the platform and suffer a multitude of injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – While the Borough of West Chester feels that a lawsuit filed against the municipality and its former mayor which challenged the constitutionality of their emergency declaration orders issued during the coronavirus pandemic is moot, the plaintiffs counter that the issue is not resolved.
PITTSBURGH – The parents of a six-year-old child who allegedly suffered a broken leg during a beginner ice skating class have settled their litigation with the ice rink where the incident took place for about $29,000.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania management company has been dismissed from the lawsuit of a tenant who had sued it for negligence, connected to their fall over a pair of retaining walls in their apartment parking lot.
PHILADELPHIA – An attorney representing Butler County, a county which contested the legality of Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 emergency measures before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, agrees with a federal judge that state officials should never again enact policies which violate the constitutional rights of Pennsylvanians.
PITTSBURGH – A state court judge has granted the preliminary objections of an upholstery cleaning company, which is defending itself against a wrongful termination suit filed by a former employee who says he was fired for objecting to working in areas where protective measures were not being practiced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PITTSBURGH – In response to AT&T’s claims that the City of Pittsburgh and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 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, the City counters that the company’s application was incomplete.
LANCASTER — A guest at a Lancaster club who was allegedly knocked unconscious by an intoxicated club member and suffered bleeding in his brain and other injuries is claiming the club's negligence caused the incident.
ALLENTOWN – Salisbury Township School District and its superintendent argue that a lawsuit alleging they denied two minor students equal access to its public schools contains nothing more than “vague and conclusory statements” to support claims that they violated federal law.
WILLIAMSPORT – The City of Williamsport believes that it did not violate the constitutional rights of a political activist through its open-burning ordinance, which the plaintiff alleged had prevented his burning flags as a method of protest.
HARRISBURG – The death of an inmate from a head laceration and severe burns in the course of his duties at the Dauphin County Work Release Center, has led to a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit filed against the center and other entities allegedly responsible for the incident.
LANCASTER – One defendant named in a negligence lawsuit centered on a security system installer’s electrocution at a Lancaster hotel argued that it was not responsible for that event, and did not contribute to the circumstances which caused it.
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.
MEDIA — The estate of a man who died of complications from a wound infection that developed while under the care of a Concordville nursing home is alleging negligence.
PHILADELPHIA – A proposed $26 billion settlement with opioid distributors and manufacturers which would benefit a group of states including Pennsylvania, has come under fire from Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner – who feels the City’s compensation would be undervalued in the agreement, wants to continue litigating and has filed his own lawsuit seeking to preserve that right.
