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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Litigators in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, should take note of a recent opinion by Judge Philip Ignelzi that significantly amends and clarifies the rules governing counsel s conduct during depositions. On March 30, 2021, in I.L. v. Allegheny Health Network, et al., G.D. 18-011924 (C.P. Allegheny), Judge Ignelzi announced that in order to reduce the court s pretrial workload and expand the scope of responses that may be elicited from deponents (and in line with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure), counsel s role in defending depositions will be ....
University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has remanded the racial discrimination case of a former doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh to state court, explaining that the action’s removal to federal court by the plaintiff was improper. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Judge Christy Criswell Wiegand ruled Dec. 29 that N.W.’s case against the University of Pittsburgh would be headed back to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. “Plaintiff, a former doctoral candidate at defendant University of Pittsburgh, originally filed this action in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 26, alleging that defendant discriminated against him on the basis of race. In particular, plaintiff’s complaint alleges that the university graded him more harshly because of his race and in retaliation for seeking redress of that discrimination,” Wiegand said. ....