ALLENTOWN – On the eve of trial, the Easton Area School District argues that standing does not exist in litigation brought by an ex-varsity high school wrestling coach, who alleged he faced discriminatory and racist conduct, including being fired, because he is Black.
PITTSBURGH – A man who suffered a severe spinal cord injury at a house party where alcohol was consumed argues that his paralysis was the result of the party hosts’ negligence in allowing him to be overserved with alcohol.
PHILADELPHIA – A prominent workers’ compensation law firm has vehemently denied it terminated a former employee for seeking accommodations during his bout with testicular cancer, and seeks to dismiss his claims, including those for punitive damages.
PITTSBURGH – A class action, nuisance-based lawsuit from a group of Westmoreland County residents against a local landfill has survived a motion to dismiss in a Pennsylvania federal court.
SCRANTON – A Dalton property owner who claimed the borough committed ongoing misconduct and trespass in its refusal to provide catch basins for 21 years, which then caused her property to suffer tremendous flooding damage and her to suffer physical and emotional distress, recently lost her case.
LANCASTER – The former Superintendent of Manheim Township School District claims he was the subject of baseless allegations of gender and age-based harassment leveled against him by other employees of the District.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia man alleges he was the victim of an assault and battery by corrections officers, after visiting his girlfriend in custody at George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County.
PITTSBURGH – A local couple allege that the wife-plaintiff developed breast cancer after not being informed that a surgical scaffold used in her 2015 breast augmentation surgery was the subject of an FDA recall, 10 days after said surgery.
WASHINGTON – A nonprofit, public-interest law firm and policy center has suggested the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania follow the example of the U.S. Supreme Court, and adopt a proportional cap on the subject of punitive damages.
PHILADELPHIA – After a jury ordered the City of Philadelphia to pay a total of $1 million to a pair of female, former Philadelphia police officers, who claimed they were the longtime targets of harassment and discrimination in a federal court lawsuit, counsel for the officers are now seeking more than $800,000 in attorney’s fees and costs.
SCRANTON – A physician from Moses Taylor Hospital has denied liability in a negligence and medical malpractice lawsuit he and others face from the parent of a minor girl who suffered a case of appendicitis.
WILLIAMSPORT – After a settlement was completed in excessive force litigation brought by a prisoner currently in state custody against a number of corrections officials at SCI-Rockview, a federal judge ordered the case dismissed without prejudice.
PHILADELPHIA –Pottstown Hospital and Tower Health are continuing their efforts to dismiss a Chester County woman’s litigation for excessive force injuries she claims she sustained in an arrest at the hospital almost three years ago by Pottstown police officers.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court denied an application for stay pending certiorari in a federal lawsuit first brought in Allentown, concerning whether or not 257 Lehigh County ballots missing the date on their outer envelopes will be officially counted in last November’s general election.
MEDIA – A Lansdale woman who alleged that her local Big Lots store created and failed to repair a tripping hazard on its premises, which led to her falling and becoming seriously injured while she was shopping there, has settled her claims.
LANCASTER – A Parkesburg couple have settled a case which alleged their local Best Western resort was negligent in using an elevated platform stage without railings, which caused one of the plaintiffs to fall from the platform and suffer a multitude of injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – An associate at a drug treatment center has settled claims that his employer and its personnel violated public policy by retaliating against him for exercising his rights and making a good faith report of wrongdoing and waste.
PITTSBURGH – An individual among a group of class action plaintiffs opposes an attempt by Giant Eagle grocery stores to sanction him for missing two appointments to take his deposition.
