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PHILADELPHIA – A veterinary care technician who alleged her former employer and others refused to make accommodations for her mental health-related conditions, before terminating her, has settled her litigation.
Kristina Cianfrani-Newton of Bensalem first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Oct. 23 versus Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center Levittown of Levittown, Blue Pearl Veterinary Partners, LLC of Tampa, Fla. and Mars, Inc. (doing business as “Mars Petcare”) of McLean, Va.
“Plaintiff was employed by defendants from in or about August of 2015 until her unlawful termination on or about Feb. 2, 2020. Plaintiff worked as an Emergency Veterinary Tech near the end of her employment at defendant Center located at 301 Veterans Highway, Levittown, PA 19056, and was supervised by Deb Blades (Nurse/Facility Manager) and Kathy Amato (plaintiff’s immediate supervisor). Throughout her
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PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia attorney alleges that improper conduct on the part of Pierce Bainbridge founder John M. Pierce, in the form of threatening an unauthorized legal malpractice suit, was done in an attempt to notch a dismissal in a fee-sharing dispute matter.
The saga starts with a 2017
lawsuit filed by Lenwood Hamilton, a former professional wrestler and football player, which claimed that the Augustus “Cole Train” Cole character featured in the
Gears of War video game series unfairly appropriated his likeness.
Hamilton’s lawsuit targeted Microsoft, developer Epic Games and the voice actor for the Cole character, Lester Speight. There was a connection between Speight and Hamilton, when the two did business together in the late-1990s. Speight made appearances for Hamilton’s family-oriented wrestling promotion, Soul City Wrestling. At the time, the plaintiff’s wrestling alter-ego was “Hard Rock Hamil
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PHILADELPHIA – A diverted federal discrimination case brought by two retired National Football League players against the organization – claiming that it manipulated cognitive function data to make it less likely Black players would receive proceeds from the 2016 concussion settlement – will now be heard before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Aug. 20 versus the NFL, of New York, N.Y.
Henry, who played eight years for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Davenport, who played seven years for the Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers and Indianapolis Colts claimed that the NFL violated federal law in handling claims under the concussion settlement, by using different sets of cognitive function data for Black and White players.