PITTSBURGH – Geibel Catholic Junior Senior High School, its principal and superintendent believe that civil rights and tort claims, raised by a female student, who alleged she was allowed by school authorities to be molested and sexually harassed multiple times by a fellow male student, should be dismissed with prejudice.
Bowles Rice is pleased to welcome attorney Damon Thomas to the firm. An accomplished attorney with nearly 20 years of experience in the areas of construction law and related litigation, Thomas brings his practice to the firm’s Southpointe, Pennsylvania office.
SCRANTON – Dunmore School District has abandoned litigation over the reclassification of its high school girls’ basketball program by a state athletic group.
PITTSBURGH – A student at Geibel Catholic Junior Senior High School alleges she was molested and sexually harassed multiple times by a fellow male student who is now of majority age and the school did not stop the abuse or discipline the alleged assailant – a charge the male student denies.
Berger Montague is pleased to announce that it has promoted Shareholder Caitlin G. Coslett to become the newest co-chair of the Firm’s antitrust department, joining Eric L. Cramer, David F. Sorensen, and Merrill G. Davidoff. Berger Montague’s antitrust department is often lauded for its innovation and expertise, most recently in November 2020, when the group was named one of Law360’s Competition Groups of the Year.
PITTSBURGH – A steel fabrication company has paid $80,000 to settle harassment claims brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, that one of the company’s former female welders suffered numerous incidents of sex-based discrimination and retaliation on the job, including termination.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Dec. 22. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to announce Julie D. Goldstein was appointed President-Elect of the Bucks County Bar Association for a one-year term, effective January 1, 2021.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by Jeffrey Young against Carlos Rondon on Dec. 22: 'Complaint Against Carlos Rondon ( Filing Fee $ 402 Receipt Number 0313-14799396.), Filed By Jeffrey Young.(simon, Marc)'.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge’s ruling has altered the terms by which negligence can be pled in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a child who alleged medical malpractice in requiring their son to have emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles, but has also denied some of the case’s medical defendants the chance to escape punitive damages.
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County’s Health Department is looking to dismiss a complaint filed by a Pittsburgh restaurant which sued it for its allegedly unconstitutional enforcement of COVID-19 emergency orders and further stop it from being sent to bankruptcy court.
SCRANTON – A federal judge has denied the attempt of Dunmore School District to secure an injunction over the reclassification of high school girls’ basketball program by a state athletic group.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by SG Equipment Finance USA Corp. against Kimball Electronics Inc. on Nov. 24.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activity in the suit brought by SG Equipment Finance USA Corp. against Kimball Electronics Inc. on Nov. 17.
The following cases categorized as "personal injury" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Nov. 20. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reported the following activities in the suit brought by Victoria Young against Mckesson Corp., Merck & Co. Inc. and Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. on Nov. 20.
Clark Hill PLC has announced the addition of Nicole Phatak as a Member in its Tax and Estate Planning practice, resident in the firm’s Pittsburgh office.
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia and its Department of Licenses and Inspections is again attempting to dismiss with prejudice a class action lawsuit which alleges it attempts to generate additional revenue for the City by issuing excessive fines on a daily basis, for both failure to state a claim and through arguing a previously-decided state court ruling should bar the instant case.
