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Publication Date: 2020-06-08
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Cargo and Shipping
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Colville
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Case Number: 20-0589
Defendant moved to disqualify plaintiffs' counsel for conflict of interest in plaintiffs'Fair Labor Standards Act action for unpaid overtime and court found no conflict in counsel's representation of service providers, who were intermediaries between plaintiff drivers and defendant, in providers' own class action. Motion denied.
Publication Date: 2019-11-04
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Padova
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Case Number: 19-1304
Defendant sought dismissal of plaintiffs' putative class action, Fair Labor Standards Act, Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Act and Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act claims and court dismissed one FLSA claim for lack of personal jurisdiction, the WPCL claim as preempted by the Labor Management Relations Act and the FLSA retaliation claim for lack of protected activity but refused to dismiss the claims predicated on the failure to pay overtime under the FLSA and PMWA. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
Publication Date: 2019-11-04
Practice Area: Administrative Law
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 19-1291
Respondent was not entitled to nunc pro tunc relief on its untimely petition for reassessment of unemployment compensation taxes where the company received timely notice of the assessment at one of its offices and offered no evidence that it made arrangements to monitor mail received there, despite knowing the office was not staffed daily. The appellate court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2019-10-28
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Kane
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Case Number: 19-1264
Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's action for age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and asserting wrongful discharge in violation of public policy and court found plaintiff failed to allege sufficient facts to support his age discrimination claim and failed to identify any law he believed himself to be upholding at the time he conducted background checks on other employees. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2019-08-19
Practice Area: Employment Compliance
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Justice Jordan
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel J. Halpern
for defendant: Donato Caruso and Ian A. Weinberger (The Lambos Firm); Kevin J. Marrinan and John P. Sheridan (Marrinan & Mazzola Mardon); Kyle D. Winnick (Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry)
Case Number: 18-2811
Pension Plan Participant Not Entitled to Additional Benefits Under Amended Terms When Terms Not in Effect During Participant's Last Year of Service
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Publication Date: 2019-08-12
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Cargo and Shipping
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
Judge: Judge Linhardt
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Case Number: 19-0862
The court dismissed this contract action, because it did not have either general or specific personal jurisdiction over the parties.
Publication Date: 2019-08-05
Practice Area: Tax
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Transportation
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 19-0912
Commonwealth court erred in finding that money appellant collected and passed on to freight carriers for their fees was not excluded from taxation under the city's business privilege and mercantile tax because the BPT regulation's "freight delivery exclusion" applied. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2019-05-13
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Cargo and Shipping
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Leeson
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Case Number: 19-0560
Court approved the proposed settlement of plaintiff's action asserting violations of the FLSA, PMWA and PWPCL alleging he should have been paid overtime instead of as an independent contractor and the court found the settlement resolved a bona fide dispute, paid plaintiff's attorney fees and gave plaintiff 28 percent of the alleged unpaid overtime wages and did not frustrate public policy. Case dismissed.
Publication Date: 2019-04-29
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Cargo and Shipping
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Pappert
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Case Number: 19-0491
Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's unjust enrichment claim in plaintiff's action over defendant's alleged changes to the parties' contract and the court found that plaintiff's allegations plausibly gave rise to a claim for unjust enrichment. Motion denied.
Publication Date: 2019-04-22
Practice Area: Transportation
Industry: Cargo and Shipping
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Conner
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Case Number: 19-0460
Subcontractor moved to set aside the default entered against it in plaintiff's Carmack amendment action over cargo that was never delivered and court found that subcontractor had a potentially meritorious defense, plaintiff showed no material prejudice and subcontractor's argument that it was not served showed the absence of culpable conduct and court set aside the default, but awarded monetary sanctions. Motion granted.
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