PHILADELPHIA – Chester government officials accused of assault by two individuals who participated in an “Environmental Justice Day” march, seek the dismissal of a variety of claims in the plaintiffs’ suit.
PHILADELPHIA – A potential settlement of $325,000 is on the table for claims brought against Amtrak by one of its employees under the Federal Railroad Safety Act, after the plaintiff allegedly faced intimidation and bullying from a supervisor, subsequent to suffering an on-the-job injury.
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Police and some claims have been dismissed from a lawsuit brought by a Chambersburg woman, who alleged she was subjected to excessive force during a DUI traffic stop arrest by five state troopers in January 2019.
PHILADELPHIA – A group of plaintiffs has appealed the denial of a preliminary injunction in their class action litigation, which claimed their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s discriminatory policies centered on race, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
PHILADELPHIA – After winning dismissal of claims brought against it by one of its employees under the Federal Railroad Safety Act, after the plaintiff allegedly faced intimidation and bullying from a supervisor, subsequent to suffering an on-the-job injury, Amtrak has answered the complaint and denied liability for the events in question.
HARRISBURG – A 5-2 majority of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed a state’s law permitting mail-in voting, reversing a contrary finding reached in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in January.
PHILADELPHIA – An employee for a non-profit legal services provider alleges that she suffered racial and disability discrimination, in retaliation for reporting similar behavior in her workplace.
MEDIA — A couple allege the wife suffered serious injuries after falling and striking her head while a patient at Crozer Chester Medical Center. Maggie L.
PITTSBURGH — The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh alleges a developer's failure to fix a water line caused more than $300,000 in damage to their property.
PHILADELPHIA — A Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) officer is being accused of assaulting protestors at a protest following the death of George Floyd.
PHILADELPHIA — A former worker with the Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti Violence Network alleges her supervisor sexually harassed her and other female co-workers. Antoinette Harrison filed a complaint May 20 in the U.S.
PHILADELPHIA – Along with its co-defendant, CVS is seeking a confidential protective order in litigation filed by a Delaware County man, who alleged he suffered permanent vitiligo from using the products he purchased at one of its local pharmacy stores.
PITTSBURGH – In lieu of a halted intervention from the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office and related discovery issues, a federal judge has temporarily paused a malicious prosecution suit from one of two men who was accused of murdering six people and an unborn child in a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg in 2016.
PHILADELPHIA – The proprietor of an adult store in Upper Merion Township is seeking to have a declaratory judgment issued that the township’s zoning codes and ordinances are unconstitutional, and thus, violated the plaintiff’s rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
HARRISBURG – Dollar Tree is seeking the plaintiffs’ medical records in litigation from a Harrisburg woman who claimed that her 13-year-old son was racially targeted by management at a local branch and falsely accused of shoplifting, nearly being arrested by police who responded to the scene.
PITTSBURGH – A health care company has filed preliminary objections to litigation alleging that an Allison Park plaintiff’s 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.
