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  • White v. FedEx Corp.

    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
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    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.

  • Soutner v. Covidien, LP

    Publication Date: 2019-08-26
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Kane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-1003

    Defendant moved to dismiss plaintiff's tort and contract-based claims for an allegedly defective surgical mesh and court found all of the claims were time-barred because plaintiff was put on inquiry notice by his second surgery which removed the mesh and revealed his injuries. Motion granted.

  • Rosenthal v. American States Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-15
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Kane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0417

    Defendant insurer moved to dismiss plaintiff's bad faith claim over defendant's settlement offer in response to her demand for UIM benefits and the court found plaintiff failed to allege facts to show that defendant's actions in investigating her claim were unreasonable and the difference between her demand and defendant's offer could not sustain a bad faith claim on its own. Motion granted.

  • Waters v. Waters

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Kane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1043

    Defendants, divorcing wife and attorneys, moved to dismiss plaintiff husband's §1983 civil rights claims asserting deprivation of his due pro-cess and equal protection rights by using an emergency petition for special relief to interfere with his rights in a partnership business he owned with wife and court found that it lacked jurisdiction over any injury caused by the state court judgment and plaintiff's complaint was against private parties and did not allege state action. Motion granted.

  • K.S. v. Bruno

    Publication Date: 2018-04-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Kane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0454

    Medical defendants were entitled to have the fourth amendment and procedural and substantive due process complaints against them, based on their finding that child had been abused, dismissed because the complaint did not offer any reasonable support to show that defendants lacked reasonable and articulable evidence of abuse or consciously disregarded a great risk that no abuse had occurred and there was no evidence that they engaged in any joint activity with the police that led to the arrest of mothers boyfriend. Motion granted.