PHILADELPHIA – An inmate serving a life sentence at SCI-Phoenix claims a now-retired prison unit manager retaliated against him on two occasions, in response to his protest for losing his single-occupancy cell and for filing a lawsuit against the manager in question.
The following labor-related cases were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Jan. 17. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court of Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Candace Cihocki, Lindsy Ray and Fortunata Walker against Model Management Agency Inc., Model and Talent Management Agency Inc., Gans Group, JC Corporate Management Inc., James (jim) Gans, Richard (rick) Gans and Ellen Wasser-Hrin on Jan. 17:
LANCASTER – Though some Lancaster chemical exposure lawsuits against Armstrong World Industries are nearly a decade old, they are in jeopardy of being dismissed as early as today for failure to prosecute.
PHILADELPHIA – Norfolk Southern Railway Company’s alleged negligence under the Federal Employers Liability Act in providing an unsafe work environment and causing one of its former employees to contract lung cancer is at the center of a recent lawsuit in Philadelphia court, one which it says lacks proper jurisdiction.
PHILADELPHIA – A student at a residential and educational facility in Glen Mills claims he was viciously beaten by two of its employees, at the behest and with the approval of the assailants’ supervisor.
PHILADELPHIA — Investors have filed a class-action lawsuit against Trevena Inc., Maxine Gowen and Roberto Cuca, a biopharmaceutical company and officials, alleging violation of the Securities Exchange Act.
PHILADELPHIA – A forklift operator whose leg was crushed at the warehouse where he worked and later required amputation, has sued a number of commercial defendants for legal damages associated with that injury.
On Sept.17, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania determined a blind man didn’t provide enough evidence that Sam’s Oyster House discriminated against him through its website.
PITTSBURGH — An Allegheny County resident is suing the city of Pittsburgh and its police department, alleging assault, false arrest and malicious prosecution.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has ruled in favor of Save-A-Lot in a slip-and-fall lawsuit filed by a shopper who allegedly tripped over a pallet in the frozen food aisle of the grocery store.
HARRISBURG – The leader of a prominent civil litigation reform organization in Pennsylvania questions whether the aims of Wisconsin’s recent groundbreaking legal reform legislation extend far enough.
HARRISBURG – The passage of legal reform legislation in Wisconsin last week in part took aim at the practice of third-party litigation funding, but the director of the National Federation of Independent Business's Pennsylvania chapter says an unfavorable legal climate may prevent such a law from coming to the Keystone State.
PHILADELPHIA – A Maryland nursing home has taken two Philadelphia-based plaintiffs to state court for breach of contract and other charges related to payment for residential nursing services.
