PITTSBURGH – Clairton City School District has won dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former administrative employee alleging that she faced racial discrimination in her time working there, finding that the plaintiff’s claims were untimely filed.
MEDIA – The Borough of Morton has denied responsibility for injuries suffered by a Delaware County woman when she fell on what she believes was a deficiently maintained sidewalk along Taylor Avenue.
HARRISBURG – The City of Harrisburg has requested that a preliminary injunction sought by a coalition group of climate change activists seeking to stage a mid-June rally there be denied, arguing that the activists have not shown reason for such an injunction to be imposed or that their constitutional rights were violated.
PHILADELPHIA – A trio of Philadelphia parents have brought a class action lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia and numerous officials in its employ, charging that their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s allegedly discriminatory policies centered on race.
PITTSBURGH – Four members of a non-profit organization looking to increase civic engagement in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who brought litigation, after they claimed the group violated its by-laws through not scheduling its annual meeting to vote on new members of the Board of Directors, have now discontinued their case.
PHILADELPHIA – A florist who brought a defamation suit in response to poor reviews of his business and business practices which were posted on Facebook, now seeks to serve the social media platform with a third-party subpoena as a part of his case.
SCRANTON – A Lackawanna County judge has authorized withdrawal of preliminary objections from a man accused of a violent assault towards one of his colleagues, a licensed practical nurse who brought litigation against him and other officials from her employer’s company.
MEDIA – A Philadelphia woman who claimed she was enjoying a friend’s birthday party at an Upper Darby tavern when she was shot by another patron of the establishment who had been allegedly over-served with alcohol during his stay, wants to amend her complaint and increase the number of defendants.
HARRISBURG – The Gap is looking to dismiss consolidated litigation alleging several Derry Township police officers committed wrongful arrest and process by profiling and taking into custody Black women shopping at the store for supposed theft, before later releasing them when it was learned that they had in fact committed no crime.
LANCASTER – A security company for the Park City Mall has denied contributory liability for a shooting incident which occurred at the site last October, and then caused a pair of shoppers trampled in the ensuing panic to sue them and the mall itself.
ERIE – A federal magistrate judge will allow the testimony of a physical rehabilitative specialist as to the alleged depression and anxiety felt by a plaintiff subsequent to being run over by a tractor-trailer.
PHILADELPHIA – A local attorney of more than four decades, who said he was fired from his role as a Delaware County public defender in 2020 due to his age and disability and after a stroke, has settled his claims with the County.
PHILADELPHIA – The Tredyffrin/Easttown School District and the secretary of its Board of Directors have denied allegations from a local parent that his First Amendment rights were violated when he attempted to inspect records of Critical Race Theory curriculum being taught.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has sanctioned plaintiff counsel in an Easton couple’s product liability case against the Sherwin-Williams paint company, finding that said counsel was responsible for the dissemination of the company’s confidential trade secrets in filings associated with the case.
SCRANTON — A York County 911 supervisor claims she faced discrimination for being LGBTQ and was fired in retaliation for reporting the discrimination. Rebecca Conners filed a complaint April 18 in the U.S.
