ERIE, Pa. (Legal Newsline) – Honeywell should have to bat second in an upcoming trial as it seeks to prove those in charge of doling out asbestos money are making it rain on plaintiffs lawyers.
PITTSBURGH – A Pitcairn business owner who claimed she was targeted for racial discrimination, harassment, code violations and false prosecution by local authorities after publicly criticizing the police’s perceived use of violence on Black citizens on social media, opposes one officer’s attempt to be dismissed from the case.
PITTSBURGH – One defendant has been dismissed from litigation brought by workers at Shell Oil Company that alleges they did not receive time-and-a-half compensation when they worked overtime hours.
PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania man who was awarded $15,000 by a Pittsburgh jury after he sued his former employer, a fireworks company, for allegedly failing to accommodate his condition of claustrophobia, has now been awarded more than $258,000 in attorney’s fees and costs.
PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania federal courts must now contend with a split between the Eastern and Western Districts on the issue of school mask mandates, as a ruling this week from a Philadelphia judge denying the Perkiomen Valley School District’s attempt to stop its mandate broke from the trend of recent rulings in more westward courts.