• Gonzalez v. Purolite Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-09-23
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Tucker
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    Case Number: 19-1115

    Retaliation complaint not dismissed where there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether plaintiff complained about conduct unlawful under Title VII and whether temporal proximity between disability accommodations and workers' compensation benefits gave rise to an inference of causation. Defendant's motion for summary judgment denied.

  • U.S. v. Milliner

    Publication Date: 2019-05-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Social Media
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Tucker
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    Case Number: 19-0566

    Defendant moved to suppress physical evidence in the child pornography charges against him and the court found there was a substantial basis for the finding of probable cause for the search warrant, the warrant was not an impermissible general warrant and defendant was not entitled to a Franks hearing because the inaccuracies in the affidavit were substantively true and not material to the probable cause finding. Motion denied.

  • Fulton v. City of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2018-07-31
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Tucker
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    Case Number: 18-0885

    Preliminary injunction to reverse suspension of publicly-funded referrals to faith-based foster care services was denied. Plaintiffs' motion denied.

  • Menkes v. 3M Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Tucker
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    Case Number: 18-0665

    Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiffs' action for negligence, failure to warn, design defect, medical monitoring and property-related and punitive damages after plaintiff discovered his bladder cancer was the result of groundwater contamination by the perfluorochemicals in de-fendants' aqueous film forming foam used for firefighting on a Navy base and the court found that plaintiffs sufficiently pled defendants owed a duty to them, proximate cause and products liability based on common law negligence but not the property-related dama