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Majority of claims remains in Boeing employee's discrimination case against employer, judge rules
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has retained the majority of claims in a discrimination lawsuit brought by a longtime employee for Boeing, who alleges that her race and religion has unfairly prevented her from being chosen for promotions. -
Strip club owners say Small Business Administration declared them 'prurient' and deprived them of COVID-19 relief funds
PHILADELPHIA – Strip club owners in five states, including Pennsylvania, have sued the U.S. Small Business Administration in federal court, claiming the SBA’s moral judgment about their businesses violated their constitutional rights and caused them to be deprived of receiving loans issued to restaurant and nightlife owners adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Burn injuries from iPhone 11 Pro suit update: Plaintiff looking to remand action to state court
PHILADELPHIA – The parent of a minor who suffered head and burn injuries allegedly while using an iPhone 11 Pro cell phone and then sued Apple and Best Buy for damages, is now seeking to have the case remanded to state court. -
Blairsville-Saltsburg School District seeking to dismiss lawsuit over school closure and subsequent merger
PITTSBURGH – Litigation which claims that the Blairsville-Saltsburg School District failed to follow proper protocols before unilaterally deciding to close one of its high schools and merge its students with another, is now facing a motion to dismiss from the district. -
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA: Acting U.S. Attorney Kaufman Announces HIDTA Designation for Erie County
Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced that Erie County has been officially designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. Erie joins four other western Pennsylvania counties - Allegheny, Beaver, Washington, and Westmoreland - in receiving dedicated federal resources to coordinate federal, state and local governments to fight drug trafficking and abuse. -
Delaware County restaurant denies culpability for plaintiff's injurious fall, caused by mopping liquid on stairs
MEDIA – A Delaware County restaurant has denied liability for injuries a local man says he suffered when it allegedly left mopping liquid on a set of stairs, stairs which he later fell on and sustained serious and significant injuries. -
Non-denominational church says Pa. state officials won't recognize marriages performed by their ministers
PITTSBURGH – A federal court lawsuit from a non-denominational religious group contends that a Pennsylvania state law has been used by state officials to declare that it may not solemnize legal marriages in the Commonwealth. -
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: Actions Taken on May 14
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity on May 14 in the suits below: -
Court activity on April 30: Melissa Arnette Elliott vs Terry Williams
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Melissa Arnette Elliott against Terry Williams on April 30: 'Supplement To 21 Response In Opposition To Motion, By Melissa Arnette Elliott (attachments: # 1 Exhibit "a")(trauben, Michael) [transferred From Florida Southern On 5/19/2021.]'. -
Case activity for Melissa Arnette Elliott vs Terry Williams on May 14
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Melissa Arnette Elliott against Terry Williams on May 14. -
Plaintiff says Pittsburgh's affirmative defenses to her sidewalk injury lawsuit are not adequately supported
PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman says official entities from the City of Pittsburgh were not only negligent in their failure to repair a sidewalk, causing her to fall and become seriously injured, but that their defenses to her lawsuit are not adequate. -
Equipment rental company asserts property owners and not itself, are liable for man's injuries from defective scaffold
PITTSBURGH – Attorneys for a local equipment rental company have countered a man’s lawsuit alleging serious injuries from a defective scaffold leased to his employer, by arguing that the fault instead belongs to its co-defendants, a pair of Western Pennsylvania property owners. -
Plaintiff's expert says lawsuit over 'Magic: The Gathering" cards was worth about $500K
PHILADELPHIA – Expert testimony in a six-figure financial dispute between collectors of rare “Magic: The Gathering” playing cards is at odds, with a recent filing from a plaintiff’s expert appraisers suggesting that breach of contract damages in the action come to just shy of $500,000. -
Hispanic office manager alleges she was discriminated against and fired by officials at Philly law firm
ALLENTOWN – An office manager of Hispanic origin says 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. -
Plaintiff in malicious prosecution suit against Philly police asserts they haven't provided discovery documents
PHILADELPHIA – The subject of a 2018 drug arrest who filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against several Philadelphia Police Department officers, contends that the department has not provided key discovery documents crucial to proving his case. -
After explosive heater kills deer hunter, all claims against Walmart dismissed from wrongful death lawsuit
SCRANTON – All claims against Walmart have been dismissed from a lawsuit filed over an allegedly defective product which exploded and killed a man on a deer hunting trip, while claims against the manufacturer defendants remain in effect. -
U.S. Supreme Court declines to review appeal of $70M Risperdal jury verdict award, punitive damages phase awaits
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a $70 million compensatory damages award given to a Tennessee plaintiff for failure to warn of side effects tied to the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, while another legal fight on the subject of punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson looms in the case. -
City of Philadelphia argues discrimination suit from Italian-American groups over dropping of Columbus Day is baseless
PHILADELPHIA – Counsel for the City of Philadelphia and Mayor Jim Kenney are seeking to dismiss a discrimination complaint from Philadelphia City Council member Mark Squilla and local Italian-American groups over Kenney’s removal of Columbus Day as an observed city holiday, arguing it lacks any factual basis. -
Owner of Old City Beer Garden sues Philly Health Department, over alleged improper closure of the business
PHILADELPHIA – The owner and operator of Old City Beer Garden has filed suit against the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health Office of Food Protection and its officials, claiming the organization closed his business without proper justification and violated his procedural due process. -
Johnson & Johnson denies that woman's use of talc-based FDA-approved baby powder gave her ovarian cancer
PITTSBURGH – Johnson & Johnson flatly denies claims made by an Oakmont woman who alleges she developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s talc-based personal hygiene products for more than half of her life.