PHILADELPHIA – A New Mexico mineral company is seeking confirmation of a multimillion-dollar arbitration award against a Pennsylvania investment group owned by a woman arrested by the FBI and charged with running a Ponzi scheme.
WASHINGTON – The attorneys general of 17 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the U.S Department of Education, in a challenge to new regulations that dictate how primary and secondary schools respond to student sexual assault and harassment complaints under Title IX.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia law firm that sued the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and alleged it illegally withheld information from families and loved ones of crash victims in violation of the Freedom of Information Act has been granted a motion to lift the stay on the action.
Ballard Spahr media law litigator Al-Amyn Sumar has been appointed to the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Gavel Awards for a three-year term.
PHILADELPHIA – Litigation between a Pennsylvania man who has filed dozens of telephone consumer protection lawsuits is engaged in a supposed scheme to extort settlements from corporate defendants, says one of the companies he has targeted.
PHILADELPHIA – A stipulated protective order surrounding the distribution of mental health records requested by discovery-related subpoena has been signed by counsel for both parties, in the case of a KinderCare teacher who has been accused of taking inappropriate pictures of a student and then sharing them with other adults.
WASHINGTON – According to one Washington observer, the Philadelphia-based American Law Institute needs to remain true to its mission of distilling and clarifying law, or else strongly consider whether it is appropriate to have judges as members of its ranks.
PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has ordered an expedient hearing for a complaint brought by 17 plaintiffs, including four Pennsylvania counties and four members of the state House of Representatives, seeking declaratory judgments that their constitutional rights were violated by Gov. Tom Wolf’s business shutdown orders in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
PHILADELPHIA – A non-profit alternative transportation company has taken legal action to recover more than $300,000 it says its former treasurer embezzled from it.
HARRISBURG – Seventeen plaintiffs, including four Pennsylvania counties and four members of the state House of Representatives, are seeking declaratory judgments that their constitutional rights were violated by Gov. Tom Wolf’s business shutdown orders in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
PITTSBURGH – U.S. Steel has won litigation filed by the Clean Air Council, and a declaration that releases of hundreds of thousands of pounds of hazardous pollutants into the air from three of its Mon Valley Works plants were exempted under federal law.
PITTSBURGH – Builders and contractors have initiated litigation against Allegheny County Community College and others to enjoin them from enforcing a “project labor agreement” within the Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council that would force them to unionize.
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia law firm that sued the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and alleged it illegally withheld information from families and loved ones of crash victims in violation of the Freedom of Information Act has moved to lift the stay on the action.
PHILADELPHIA – A visually impaired man who sued Herr Foods for allegedly not making its website accessible for himself and other blind individuals has lost his case on the grounds that the website is not “a place of public accommodation.”
READING — A Pennsylvania cloud-based computer storage company and the nationwide home health care provider it works with are facing a class action alleging they failed to give consumers proper notice of a 2019 data breach that compromised their personal information.
PITTSBURGH – KinderCare claims it acted with care and within all lawful requirements, and is not responsible for the actions of a teacher who has been accused of taking inappropriate pictures of a student and then sharing them with other adults.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on April 6. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PITTSBURGH – A former Waynesburg Central High School student has lost his attempt to reconsider the dismissal of his lawsuit - one resulting from his expulsion for suspected drug use.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on April 1. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
PHILADELPHIA – An ex-constituent services worker for state Sen. Anthony Williams who claims she was fired before Christmas in 2018 and after contracting breast cancer states her age discrimination claim was properly plead, in opposition to a recent argument from counsel for the senator.
