PHILADELPHIA — Two Bucks County residents and three Montgomery County residents are suing a debt collector, citing alleged violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
MEDIA – A man says the ramp to a walk-in refrigeration unit on the premises of a religious non-profit organization was defective, and caused him to be injured in a fall in September 2016.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal lawsuit from a woman who claimed a local college was responsible for intentionally inflicting emotional distress on her and denying her due process in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), has been settled.
HARRISBURG – The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed a ruling in December in which the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery Count denied a motion for a preliminary injunction against an ordinance that prohibits the carrying or discharging of firearms in a park without a special permit.
HARRISBURG – The state Legislature will need to walk a fine line in a controversial measure that would have more police officers wear body cams but would sharply reduce public access to the resulting video, a government transparency expert says.
HARRISBURG – For J. Paul Helvy, the chairman of the Family
Law Practice Group at McNees Wallace & Nurick LLS and the immediate past
chairman of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Law Section, the fight
for a reduction in the divorce waiting period in the state was primarily
about children and the overall well-being of families.
NORRISTOWN – Former State Attorney General Kathleen Kane received a prison sentence of 10 to 23 months in Montgomery County court on Monday, for revealing confidential details pertinent to a grand jury investigation to retaliate against a political rival and lying about it under oath.
HARRISBURG – The Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a trial court’s granting of summary judgment to an automobile dealer in an action where its plaintiffs claimed said dealer violated lawful business practices.
PHILADELPHIA – Defense counsel representing a pair of drivers and their place of employment in a motor vehicle accident case has successfully petitioned to strike punitive damages through preliminary objections, but lost out in court on other objections related to improper venue and insufficient pleading of charges.
PHILADELPHIA – A member of defense counsel says the Borough of Conshohocken should be dismissed from a construction injury litigation due to legal immunity, or alternatively, that the case should be transferred to the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania corporation is suing Eckert & Ziegler Bebig Inc., a New York corporation, citing alleged breach of contract due to failure to pay for a business.
NORRISTOWN - Kathleen Kane, the former attorney general of Pennsylvania who recently resigned after being found guilty of perjury, won't spend much time in prison, but she likely won't be practicing law for a long time - if ever again - a Duquesne University law professor says.
PHILADELPHIA – A Norristown building company’s preliminary objections as to a possible change of venue in a slip-and-fall case have been overruled in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA – A defense attorney in a personal injury case says a plaintiff did not include a necessary defendant in the subsequent litigation, and summarily wants the case transferred to the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
PHILADELPHIA – Defense counsel has added a Doylestown landscaping company to a slip-and-fall lawsuit emanating from Huntingdon Valley, who has approximately three weeks to respond to that legal action.
PHILADELPHIA – A premises liability lawsuit against a Haverford hotel is not only remaining in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, but a switch has been made in counsel for the defendant parties in the action.
