PHILADELPHIA – In a class action, sexual abuse lawsuit brought by seven former residents of The Summit Academy, Philadelphia’s Juvenile Probation Department has received dismissal of certain federal civil rights and state-law claims lodged against it.
PITTSBURGH – Rite Aid’s attorneys have argued for a stay in a Western Pennsylvania woman’s negligence lawsuit against it – brought after she fell on uncleaned salt and snow in the wake of a snowstorm and broke her right ankle last January – due to the pharmacy retailer’s pending bankruptcy proceedings.
PHILADELPHIA – In a class action, sexual abuse lawsuit brought by seven former residents of The Summit Academy, the plaintiffs have rejected calls from Philadelphia’s Juvenile Probation Department for Eleventh Amendment-based immunity to be granted to it.
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia’s Juvenile Probation Department contends that Eleventh Amendment immunity should protect it from a class action, sexual abuse lawsuit brought by seven former residents of The Summit Academy.
PITTSBURGH – An educator who was allegedly sexually assaulted by one of her students and argued that the student’s former school did not advise her of his capacity for committing acts of violence and assault, has dropped her case for now.