PITTSBURGH – City of Pittsburgh defendants have succeeded in having the municipal liability claims removed from the case, in a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged she was unlawfully arrested because she doesn’t support President Donald Trump.
PHILADELPHIA – A non-profit group promoting the implementation of safe and secure election voting procedures has just donated a $10 million grant to the City of Philadelphia – while critics say the organization is in fact a partisan political group comprised of Democratic operatives trying to swing the Presidential election in November.
PITTSBURGH – A lawsuit from a group of five ex-volunteer firefighters in Latrobe says they were ousted from their department earlier this year after voicing opposition to the alleged behavior of its chief.
PHILADELPHIA – A sports facility in Chester County believes that physical loss is distinct from physical damage, and thus rejects the argument from its insurer that since it did not sustain physical damage loss in the coronavirus pandemic, it should not receive business interruption coverage.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has stayed a lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign over mail-in ballots until at least October, in order for state courts to first resolve questions of law over the collection and tallying of such ballots.
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.
HARRISBURG – A Shippensburg University director of testing has sued the institution for damages after claiming a female colleague made numerous unwanted sexual advances towards her – and that the school not only initially failed to listen to her story, but refused to reinstate her employment.
HARRISBURG – Two separate multi-state coalitions of Democratic attorneys general are suing the United States Postal Service, in order to challenge nationwide operational changes that they allege may harm the process of voting by mail prior to the Presidential election in November.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a pair of Jenkintown residents, including a former mayoral candidate, which alleged that town’s Borough Manager and other officials retaliated against them through a series of bogus zoning code violations.
PHILADELPHIA – In an answer to pertinent litigation, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department argues that it is not legally required to disclose civil immigration enforcement records to The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic.
PHILADELPHIA – The insurer for a sports facility in Chester County believes that since it did not sustain physical damage loss in its mandated closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, it should not receive business interruption coverage.
WASHINGTON – A Philadelphia-area attorney with extensive background in representing plaintiffs for both pharmaceutical and medical device litigation was recently chosen as the new President of the American Association for Justice, which was formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
PITTSBURGH – The first of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign sued for their allegedly illegal system for submitting and counting mail-in ballots has declared the complaint to be devoid of facts.
As companies continue to bring employees back to work and ramp up operations, there are myriad issues to consider during the hiring and re-hiring process, as well as when determining if current conditions do not warrant the retention of the entire workforce.
Last month, the United States Supreme Court finally put the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) into alignment with the rest of the executive branch of government by ruling that the CFPB Director is an at-will employee of the President of the United States.
PITTSBURGH – New counsel for a non-profit group and its president accused of violating of federal and state wiretapping laws by a Pittsburgh health care clinic and its executive director, wants postponement of an injunction hearing due to an alleged lack of both proper service of the complaint and time to prepare for the hearing.
HARRISBURG – A 5-2 majority of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that a joint resolution from state lawmakers to end the emergency declaration put in place by Gov. Tom Wolf in response to the coronavirus pandemic was null and void, since it had not been reviewed by Wolf for either his approval or veto.
ALLENTOWN – A former director of dining services at a Lancaster retirement home community is suing her former employer for allegedly terminating her employment due to her disability and interfering with her rights to Family Medical Leave under the law.
PHILADELPHIA – Jenkintown residents, including a former mayoral candidate, are now also seeking reconsideration of a recent summary judgment motion, in a case from the plaintiffs who say the Borough Manager and other officials retaliated against them through a series of bogus zoning code violations.
In early May, the U.S. Department of Education issued a new rule on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, related to sexual discrimination and harassment.