Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin’s motion to dismiss a suit filed by a lawyer who had worked at the firm failed to persuade a federal judge to toss the case.

U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania let the case filed by Erica Serine survive. Serine, who worked in the firm’s insurance coverage and bad-faith litigation practice group for about two-and-a-half years, brought claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.