PITTSBURGH – Settlement talks are upcoming in the case of a local family who filed suit against the City of Pittsburgh and a dozen or more Pittsburgh police officers, stemming from an incident more than three years ago where the plaintiffs say police followed them home, burst into their home without a warrant and physically assaulted them.
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has eliminated an independent board that nominated people to serve on the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority’s board and announced his own nominees. Former Mayor Bill Peduto enacted an executive order to create the board of nominators. Maria Montaño, a spokesperson for Gainey, said the mayor
Proposed zoning changes for Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood won’t be decided until next year. Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday postponed a vote on the proposed changes for at least six weeks to take additional time to discuss the measure. Council members could make additional amendments ahead of a preliminary vote, now
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have answered litigation from AT&T, which asserted that the defendants violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by limiting the company’s ability to place wireless facilities on telephone poles in the city’s rights-of-way.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh has denied liability in litigation between itself and the estate of a deceased man, who was tasered nine times by a local police officer due to being initially considered a suspect in a bicycle theft and who later died from his injuries.