• Doe v. Temple Univ.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Wolson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2:23-cv-04433-JDW

    Court declined plaintiff's motion to proceed anonymously to prevent his current employer from learning of his chronic health condition, where plaintiff's claimed fears were largely economic in nature and required the unreasonable assumption that plaintiff's employer would break the law by terminating him due to his disability. Plaintiff's motion to proceed anonymously and seal the record denied.

  • Lloyd v. Manbel Devco I LP

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Leeson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 5:23-cv-2261

    Defendant landlord moved to dismiss plaintiff tenant's discrimination and retaliation claims based on disability, failure to accommodate and the Fair Housing Act and court found plaintiff offered little more than conclusory allegations, apartment complex was not a place of public accommodation within the Americans with Disabilities Act and court dismissed the ADA claims with prejudice and granted leave to amend the FHA claims. Motion granted.

  • Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Wolson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2:23-cv-00164-JDW

    Defendant moved for summary judgment in plaintiff's Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act and Pennsylvania Human Relations action over his termination for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination and court found plaintiff provided no evidence that his decision to not get vaccinated was borne of religious belief or that defendant discriminated against him when it fired him. Motion granted.

  • Burns v. SeaWorld Parks & Ent., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-2941

    Defendants moved to strike plaintiffs' expert witness report and testimony regarding the extent to which plaintiffs suffered trauma from alleged racial discrimination experienced at defendants' property. The court granted in part and denied in part defendants' motion to strike, concluding the expert's reasoning, in light of the testing that he performed, did not allow him to testify that the trauma symptoms he observed in individual plaintiffs were linked to the alleged discrimination that took place at defendants' park.

  • United States v. Select Rehab. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Federal Government | Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Savage
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 19-3277

    Defendants moved to certify on interlocutory appeal a question as to the application of the first-to-file doctrine in a qui tam action and court found there was no controlling question of law. Motion denied.

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  • Schabacker v. Ferens

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Health Care | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-3778

    Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiffs' action alleging defamation, breach of the non-disparagement and property return of provisions of the severance agreement, intentional infliction of emotional distress and violations of the Pennsylvania Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the Federal Defense of Trade Secrets Act and the Lanham Act and court found defendant's post on a job website was not commercial speech under the Lanham act but there were genuine issues of material fact in dispute as to all of plaintiffs' other claims. Motion denied in p

  • Gray v. Main Line Hosp., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-0263

    Court erred in dismissing religious failure to accommodate claim where employee presented prima facie evidence that she had a religiously connected, sincerely held objection to receiving COVID-19 vaccines. Defendant's motion for summary judgment denied in part and granted in part.

  • Angelis v. Philadelphia Hous. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Surrick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-460

    Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's employment discrimination complaint. The court granted in part and denied in part defendant's motion, concluding in pertinent part that plaintiff stated a claim for sexual orientation discrimination in violation of federal and state law, but failed to allege claims for discrimination on the basis of sex or disability.

  • Sorace v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Pappert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 204318

    Plaintiffs moved for approval of the settlement in plaintiffs' class action asserting defendant violated Pennsylvania law by using deficient disclosure notices and practices in repossessing plaintiffs' vehicles and court found the Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(e)(2) and Girsh factors supported the settlement, the distribution was fair, reasonable and adequate as was the attorney fee and named plaintiff incentive awards. Motion granted.

  • Albee v. Albee

    Publication Date: 2024-03-01
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Sanchez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-3984

    Plaintiff brought a shareholder derivative action against defendants for usurpation of corporate opportunity and related claims. The court found in favor of plaintiff upon trial, concluding plaintiff's son, as majority shareholder in the family business, usurped corporate opportunity and breached his fiduciary duties by unilaterally diverting a project from the family business to his own company.