AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A man who won a jury verdict for $216,000 in damages after being hit by a bus operated by a county social-services center will have to settle for $100,000 after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that state law limits the power of courts to award any more.
PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has discounted liability for leak and property damage that a local business sustained, when its basement flooded under inches of water.
PHILADELPHIA – Three Philadelphia Police Department officers have denied allegations made against them in a civil rights lawsuit alleging that they and local assistant district attorneys violated the constitutional rights of a Philadelphia man and his family, through illegally performed narcotics arrests and prosecutions.
PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and its counsel have been dismissed from a civil rights lawsuit alleging that multiple Philadelphia Police Department officers and assistant district attorneys violated a Philadelphia man's and his family’s constitutional rights through illegally performed narcotics arrests and prosecutions.