LANCASTER – The Hamilton Arms Center skilled nursing facility has brought preliminary objections against both the general allegations and demand for punitive damages made by the daughter of a resident who died there in June of last year.
PITTSBURGH – One Pittsburgh police officer successfully defended himself from a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged she was unlawfully arrested because she didn’t support former President Donald Trump.
PITTSBURGH – A Glassport church and its community food bank have denied responsibility for the alleged molestation of two young women volunteering for those groups by a fellow parishioner.
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PHILADELPHIA – A local jury found for the City of Philadelphia in litigation brought by a former inmate of SCI-Graterford, who claimed local law enforcement officials did not take proper care in transporting him and others who were confined to wheelchairs – leading him to suffer a concussion, chest and spinal injuries.
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PHILADELPHIA – Trial commences this week in an action where a former inmate of SCI-Graterford says local law enforcement officials did not take proper care in transporting him and others who were confined to wheelchairs, leading him to suffer a concussion, chest and spinal injuries.
PHILADELPHIA – For the second time, a federal judge has dismissed litigation from a woman who alleged that the school bus sexual assault she endured as a middle school student was the fault of her school, which was said to have disregarded the alleged assailant’s history of prior assaults and violated her constitutional rights in the process.
LANCASTER – In a suit which claimed a landlord’s negligence resulted in the ceiling of the plaintiff’s prior domicile collapsing on her, due to failure to repair a leak in her living room ceiling, the landlord has brought preliminary objections to dismiss claims for lack of specificity.
PITTSBURGH – A man named as a defendant in a harassment and defamation lawsuit surrounding a brief relationship between himself and a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney, has objected to the allegations directing responsibility for the charges in question to him.
PHILADELPHIA – The Logan Hotel has denied that it racially discriminated against and harassed a private detective working in a protective capacity for media covering the 2020 Presidential Election in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA – A former Pond Lehocky attorney who claimed he was terminated for seeking accommodations during his bout with testicular cancer, has hit back at the firm’s motion to dismiss punitive damages from his complaint.
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 – Two Pittsburgh police officers continue to maintain that they should be granted summary judgment, in a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged she was unlawfully arrested because she didn’t support former President Donald Trump.
HARRISBURG – The Chairman of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has introduced legislation to amend Pennsylvania’s constitution to prohibit venue shopping in medical liability cases, a potential game-changer for civil litigation statewide if it were to be passed.
HARRISBURG – A former employee of the State House of Representatives’ Republican Caucus who sued the body for discrimination, unlawful termination and retaliation, claiming he received prejudicial treatment for his practice of the Islamic faith, has settled his claims.
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