With COVID-19 cases climbing and schools poised to open amid a fifth surge, the Lancaster Chamber on Wednesday hosted a virtual town hall to provide legal and health information for
In 1862, in the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln declared millions of enslaved people in the United States to be free. However, because word traveled slowly back then, and because many slave owners refused to obey the proclamation, Black people in deep Southern states, including Texas, continued to be held as slaves even after the Civil War ended in April 1865.
Ten weeks after that war ended, Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with 2,000 troops to occupy the state on behalf of the federal government and to enforce the conditions of the Confederacyâs surrender, which included the end to slavery. And on June 19, Gen. Granger read aloud a declaration announcing the total abolition of slavery in Texas. âGeneral Orders No. 3â stated: âThe people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.â
D Andrea | Laffey Bucci & Kent
LANCASTER – Counsel for a Philadelphia man argues that material alleging sexual assault committed upon the plaintiff by his chiropractor is not “scandalous and impertinent, but rather, necessary information needed to prove both the plaintiff’s case and the rationale for demanding punitive damages.
John Doe of Philadelphia first filed suit in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas on Feb. 9 versus Dr. William Vollmar, Stephen G. Diamantoni & Associates and Lancaster General Health, all of Lancaster.
According to the lawsuit, defendant Vollmar had a history of sexually assaulting and abusing his patients, including children, at various locations statewide over the past several decades.
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Evans | Saxton & Stump
LANCASTER – A Lancaster medical practice objects to claims from a Philadelphia man who alleges he was sexually assaulted by his chiropractor, and both counters that his suit fails to state a claim and seeks to strike instances of “scandalous and impertinent matter” from the complaint.
John Doe of Philadelphia first filed suit in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas on Feb. 9 versus Dr. William Vollmar, Stephen G. Diamantoni & Associates and Lancaster General Health, all of Lancaster.
According to the lawsuit, defendant Vollmar had a history of sexually assaulting and abusing his patients, including children, at various locations statewide over the past several decades.