A federal judge has let stand a $5.75 million jury award to creditors in a complex bankruptcy case that has volleyed between the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit since it was transferred from the bankruptcy court in 2010.
U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania had initially sided with the defendants, the administrators in charge of the Lemington Home for the Aged in Pittsburgh, granting them summary judgment in 2010 on all claims brought by creditors of the defunct nursing home. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed his decision, holding that the plaintiffs had brought sufficient evidence to support their claims in front of a jury.
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