ALLENTOWN – Lancaster County has been dismissed from litigation asserting that its district attorney and police officers conducted warrantless raids of businesses selling vape products last April, raids which those proprietors contend were illegal and contradictory to state laws currently on the books.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has granted a motion for summary judgment and dismissed a product liability lawsuit, which resulted from the plaintiff suffering injuries to his middle finger when he placed his hand in the blades of a snow thrower he believed to be turned off.
PHILADELPHIA – A former Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia employee of nearly 10 years who alleged she was unlawfully terminated in 2021, as retaliation by the hospital after she requested an accommodation of her anxiety disorder, recently settled her claims.
PHILADELPHIA – A group of plaintiffs who claimed in a class action suit that their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s discriminatory policies centered on race have temporarily lost their renewed motion for class certification.
PHILADELPHIA – A group of plaintiffs has appealed the denial of a preliminary injunction in their class action litigation, which claimed their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s discriminatory policies centered on race, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.