PHILADELPHIA – A couple's lawsuit against Sears over a table saw that collapsed and severed two fingers will be heard in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, not the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, where the suit was filed.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia woman with cerebral palsy is suing JetBlue after she was allegedly injured while being transported to her seat by an employee.
PHILADELPHIA - A woman who sued after being fired by St. Francis–St. Vincent Homes for Children had most of her allegations dismissed Aug. 7 by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania – but it allowed her charges of race and religion discrimination and retaliation to continue.
A nonprofit organization accused of fraud was granted its motion for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Aug. 9.
PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit filed by the parents of a Penncrest High School special needs student, who sued the school district after their son was assaulted in the campus cafeteria, has been dismissed due to what a judge called untimely filing of their response to the district’s motion to throw the case out.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Aug. 1 ruled against a male bartender who said he was fired because of sex discrimination.
A judge allowed an employment discrimination lawsuit filed by two former teachers against Friends’ Central School Corp. and others to partially continue in a ruling issued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Aug. 2.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted Muhlenberg Township’s motion to dismiss an employment dispute with a former employee.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia engineering and contracting firm who alleged that a minority owner diverted work away from it to his own company and that it and its subsidiaries lost millions in profits as a result, has had those allegations dropped and is compelled to pay damages to one of the defendants as part of a settlement.
On August 2, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge granted an injunctive order against Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Secretary of the Department of Labor, ordering the secretary to stop preventing and delaying a construction project.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia man is seeking more than $1 million in compensatory damages from the city and a corrections officer over allegations the officer assaulted him and fractured his jaw while he was an inmate.
PHILADELPHIA – The long saga surrounding the pursuit of a multimillion-dollar Liberian judgment has resulted in a federal judge issuing an order stating his desire to levy a $15 million judgment upon a prominent Irish real estate developer funding it, if a settlement is not reached by the end of September.
PHILADELPHIA – A maintenance service company facing a lawsuit over allegations of breach of warranty filed a notice of removal in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on July 19.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S., state and the Pennsylvania Department of Environment Protection filed a suit against Whitpain Township for funds they had to pay to cleanup a site where asbestos-containing products were formerly made.
PHILADELPHIA – S.C. Johnson & Son has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against a Yardley company over allegations that its advertisements regarding insect repellent and the safety of DEET are false and misleading.
PHILADELPHIA – A Chester County 12-year-old with autism was a victim of a gang attack but says he was later charged with disturbing the peace for allegedly swearing. Now, he’s suing Pennsylvania State Police officers in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. government alleges in a suit filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that a Huntington Valley doctor and his pain management clinic committed health care fraud.
PHILADELPHIA – Joseph Wildcat Sr., the president of the Lac Du Flambeau Tribe of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians is alleged to have violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and is now facing a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
