PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit which claimed a wide variety of retailers have been unlawfully charging sales tax on the purchases of face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
PITTSBURGH – A Tennessee company has discounted liability in a lawsuit which claims that itself and a pair of Pittsburgh homeowners are liable for injuries that a local man suffered, when an oak tree on the defendants’ lawn collapsed and fell on him during his run.
PITTSBURGH – Pine-Richland School District and three of its officials deny that they defamed its now former high school football head coach with false claims that he condoned hazing and bullying in the school’s football program.
PITTSBURGH – A Tennessee company has rebuffed an attempt from Blystone Tree and Landscaping to add it to a lawsuit which claims that itself and a pair of Pittsburgh homeowners are liable for injuries that a local man suffered, when an oak tree on the defendants’ lawn collapsed and fell on him during his run.
PITTSBURGH – A Whitehall Borough store owner’s lawsuit alleging that local policy towards skill machines and mechanical device licenses is being selectively enforced against him in violation of state and federal law, will now be heard in a Pennsylvania federal court.
PITTSBURGH – Counsel for two individuals who were said to have provided a series of text messages between a Pittsburgh man and a young rowing club student painting him as an illicit sexual predator and causing him to lose a job opportunity, have filed preliminary objections which attempt to call into doubt the veracity of the subsequent lawsuit’s defamation allegations.
PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County man who served as a high school football head coach for eight years alleges that his contract was not renewed and that he was then defamed by District officials with false claims that he permitted hazing and bullying in the football program.
PITTSBURGH – A mutual consent order of permanent injunction has ended defamation litigation from a Pittsburgh restaurant against one of its former servers, who had accused the business of multiple forms of wrongdoing on social media and elsewhere.
PITTSBURGH – Blystone Tree and Landscaping is seeking to add a Tennessee company to a lawsuit which claims that itself and a pair of Pittsburgh homeowners are liable for injuries that a local man suffered, when an oak tree on the defendants’ lawn collapsed and fell on him during his run.
PITTSBURGH – After more than a year of inactivity, a state court judge’s ruling has breathed new life into a lawsuit filed by a trio of professional athletes and the players’ associations of Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the National Hockey League - all of whom allege that the City of Pittsburgh’s “jock tax” that is applied to both resident and non-resident athletes is unconstitutional.
PITTSBURGH – A school committee has lost its lawsuit seeking to prevent the closure of its town’s high school and consolidation with a nearby high school, which claimed that the latter community’s board of education began the closure and merger processes before seeking proper public input under the law.
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.
PITTSBURGH – A pair of Pittsburgh homeowners argue that the landscaping company they hired, and not themselves, are liable for injuries that a local man suffered when an oak tree on the collapsed and fell on him.
PITTSBURGH – A battle over a $300,000 escrow deposit between a New York buyer and the owners of The Priory Hotel in Pittsburgh has reached a Pennsylvania state court.
PITTSBURGH – Athletes and sports unions suing the City of Pittsburgh over its “jock tax” argue have labeled as incorrect certain arguments the City made - particularly that because it financed the construction of its major sports stadiums through taxpayer funds, it has the right to tax the individuals using the facilities in order to get its money back.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh is facing a lawsuit from a trio of professional athletes and the players’ associations of Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the National Hockey League, claiming its “jock tax” that is applied to both resident and non-resident athletes is unconstitutional.
