PITTSBURGH – Ambridge Area School District discounts claims that it violated the civil rights of a 14-year-old African-American and special needs student at Ambridge High School, who claims he was kicked off the football team for participating in an angry exchange with a teammate who had bullied him on Snapchat.
PITTSBURGH – A 14-year-old African-American and special needs student at Ambridge High School who claims he was kicked off the football team for participating in an angry exchange with a teammate who had bullied him on Snapchat, has withdrawn claims alleging his constitutional rights were violated.
PITTSBURGH – Jefferson-Morgan School District is attempting to have dismissed a lawsuit brought against it by the father of a varsity high school football player, due to his being barred from the campus and football stadium after he asked the head coach to resign following a game last year.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County continues to oppose the dismissal of arbitration proceedings and any payout of donated sick time to the estate of a former district attorney who passed away of cancer in 2019, charging that such a move would violate a collective bargaining agreement with the decedent’s union.
HARRISBURG – According to a unanimous Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruling, concert tickets which were given to players at Bensalem casino as a perk in 2014 are ineligible from being taxed as a portion of the casino’s operating revenue, which concurred with an earlier ruling from the state’s Commonwealth Court.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied the issuance of a preliminary injunction to the father of a Jefferson-Morgan varsity football player who sued the school district in federal court, after he was barred from the campus and football stadium after he asked the head coach to resign following a game last year.
PITTSBURGH – The United Steelworkers union is continuing in its attempt to vacate and dismiss arbitration proceedings, which sought to obtain sick pay benefits for a former assistant district attorney who passed away of cancer in 2019.
PITTSBURGH – Ambridge Area School District wants a federal court to throw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of a 14-year-old African-American and special needs student at its high school who claimed he was kicked off the football team for participating in an angry exchange with a teammate who had bullied him on Snapchat.
PITTSBURGH – Two minor-age members of the Greater Latrobe High School wrestling team have denied that they engaged in hazing and sexual assault against a teammate of theirs, with counsel for one of the boys labeling the incident that took place as “kids play.”
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied a trio of motions for summary judgment from the parent companies of TGI Friday’s and Delta Airlines, named in litigation brought by a sky marshal who was allegedly sexually assaulted by an intoxicated passenger on her flight from Pittsburgh to Atlanta in 2018.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge determined that plaintiffs in a class action will be able to conduct limited discovery towards an arbitration motion filed by an Illinois online lender which allegedly charged usurious interest rates on loans it offered to its customers.
WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission has announced a new initiative to penalize for-profit colleges and universities for making misleading claims about their graduates’ job placement and earning prospects with sizable sanctions - leading to concerns from the industry that no actual findings of wrongdoing have been alleged.
PITTSBURGH – An Illinois online lender contends that a Washington County woman’s class action lawsuit claiming it charged usurious interest rates on loans it offered to its customers should be handled through arbitration, or alternatively dismissed.
PITTSBURGH – Greater Latrobe School District is seeking to consolidate separate lawsuits filed by current or former students and their parents, regarding incidents of alleged hazing during the time the students were members of the wrestling team.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal appellate court’s ruling has provided clarifying guidance as to the circumstances by which exceptions are considered and given to the statute of repose under federal law, through an investor dispute action involving a Pennsylvania regional transportation entity.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia woman’s lawsuit which accused the Vesper Dayclub in Northern Liberties of discriminating through its membership application process against prospective Black members has been settled.
PHILADELPHIA – A six-figure financial dispute between collectors of rare Magic: The Gathering playing cards resulted in a federal judge handing down a split verdict after a three-day bench trial in April, with the plaintiff being awarded more than $36,000.
PITTSBURGH – A ninth-grade wrestler and his parents contend he was sexually assaulted by a group of his teammates prior to a team practice, a hazing incident they say was allowed to happen through the negligence of the adults who were supposed to be supervising the students.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction to counsel for a 14-year-old African-American and special needs student at Ambridge High School, who claims he was kicked off the football team for participating in an angry exchange with a teammate who had bullied him on Snapchat.
PHILADELPHIA – A teenager who alleged a McDonald’s restaurant manager showed her sexually graphic photos on his phone during her job interview, is seeking to proceed anonymously through the remainder of the litigation.
