JOHNSTOWN – A Cambria County railroad laborer who developed prostate cancer from alleged exposure to toxic chemicals in his work with Norfolk Southern and Conrail and filed suit over those same circumstances, has passed away.
JOHNSTOWN – Both Norfolk Southern and Conrail have denied liability for a Cambria County man and railroad laborer’s alleged exposure to a series of toxic chemicals, which he alleged led him to develop prostate cancer.
JOHNSTOWN – A Cambria County man claims that in his time as a railroad laborer, his workplace exposure to a host of toxic chemicals led him to contract prostate cancer and is suing a Georgia railroad company for damages.
Phil Ray
The attorneys representing a former student intern in the Hollidaysburg Area School District, who was arrested but later cleared of leaving voicemail threats at five schools, contend in newly-filed legal documents that law enforcement violated their client’s constitutional rights by filing charges against him without probable cause.
They also maintain that now-retired Blair County District Attorney Richard A. Consiglio, and police officers from several local departments, are not legally protected from lawsuit by immunity.
Attorneys Ronald P. Carnevali Jr. and Toby D. Mcllwain of Johnstown are representing Scott M. Vinosky, who in the fall of 2019 was a student intern with the Hollidaysburg school district, attempting to complete the requirements for a master’s degree from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.