ALLENTOWN – An openly gay man who is suing Guess, Inc. for the treatment he says he received while employed at its Sands Bethlehem outlet store, is being permitted to proceed in his case anonymously.
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has dismissed certain counts from the lawsuit filed by a former warehouse worker for the Sam Adams beer company, who says he both experienced discrimination and harassment for being Hispanic and that the company fired him in retaliation for reporting the harassment.
PHILADELPHIA – A New York fashion rental company labels Urban Outfitters’ objections to its lawsuit, one which alleged it ended merger talks and stole the plaintiff’s proprietary concept for a women’s clothing rental business for itself, as “irrelevant” and “extraneous.”
McGuireWoods had 195 attorneys from the firm’s U.S. offices selected for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 15 of whom were named Lawyers of the Year, an honor given to only one lawyer in each practice area per city.
Eighty-five McGuireWoods lawyers from its U.S. offices were selected for inclusion on Best Lawyers’ inaugural “Ones to Watch” list recognizing the nation’s most promising attorneys for professional excellence in private practice.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Harry Stoner against Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc., CR Bard Inc., Does 1 Through 100 and Mckesson Corp. on Aug. 17.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Harry Stoner against Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc., CR Bard Inc., Does 1 Through 100 and Mckesson Corp. on July 29.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Harry Stoner against Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc., CR Bard Inc., Does 1 Through 100 and Mckesson Corp. on Aug. 11.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Aug. 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit filed in federal court is looking to compel Pennsylvania election officials to change how voters’ signatures are verified on mail-in ballots, arguing that the votes of thousands of people may otherwise be invalidated in this year’s Presidential election.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Betty Lewis against Mckesson Corp., Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. on Aug. 19.
PITTSBURGH – E-retail giant Amazon has petitioned to remove litigation filed by one of its former employees for harassment and disability-related discrimination to a Pennsylvania federal court, citing federal question jurisdiction, diversity of citizenship and the amount of damages in question.
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart will offer a deposition in a lawsuit brought by a pair of female Philadelphia police officers who claim they were the longtime targets of sexual harassment and discrimination.
PHILADELPHIA – A local television news anchor suing for allegedly improper use of her image on commercial websites across the Internet is seeking to add a new defendant to her lawsuit, according to a recent filing in the case.
PHILADELPHIA – Facebook, Reddit and Imgur have collectively been dismissed from a lawsuit brought by a local television news anchor suing for allegedly improper use of her image on commercial websites across the Internet, per order of a federal judge in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA – One of the defendants in a lawsuit brought by a local television news anchor suing for allegedly improper use of her image on commercial websites across the Internet, says the court has no general jurisdiction over it and it should be dismissed from the case.
PHILADELPHIA – A local television news anchor suing for allegedly improper use of her image on commercial websites across the Internet has agreed to dismiss one of them, Giphy, Inc., from her lawsuit.
PITTSBURGH – In a dispute pitting a Pittsburgh distillery against one of its former executive over access to the company’s Facebook page and website, a state court judge has granted the distillery an injunction ensuring it will recover its proprietary and social media information.