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Grievants employer, a Pennsylvania school district, failed to establish that an arbitrators findings regarding grievants cell phone use while operating a school bus were patently false and impossible and that an arbitration award overturning her termination should be vacated. The court denied a motion to set aside the arbitration award.
Race and disability discrimination claims timely where discrete events occurred within 300 days of EEOC complaint that asserted such discrimination from which plaintiff timely filed suit. Partial motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.
Plaintiffs were entitled to a spoliation sanction against the defendant health care professionals in the form of an adverse inference jury instruction due to a defendant physicians seemingly inexplicable failure to obtain an umbilical cord blood gas sample under circumstances that warranted such testing. The court granted in part and denied in part plaintiffs motion in limine.
Publication Date: 2018-05-15 Practice Area:Family Law Industry: Court:Superior Court Judge:Judge McLaughlin Attorneys:For plaintiff: for defendant: Case Number: 18-0568
Petition to modify custody properly denied where court found maintenance of mothers primary physical custody warranted where she fostered the childs relationship with father and where the parties had a high-conflict relationship that would make shared physical custody untenable. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction was appropriate where plaintiff failed to show that service by mail on a foreign corporation was made on an authorized agent.
Partial decertification of wage law class erroneous where employers failure to make partial payment to former employees within original class did not constitute later evidentiary development. Order of the trial court reversed.
Publication Date: 2018-05-15 Practice Area:Criminal Law Industry: Court:Superior Court Judge:Judge Bowes Attorneys:For plaintiff: for defendant: Case Number: 18-0566
In this case of first impression, the appellate court concluded that immunity under the Drug Overdose Response Act is not a defense and is nonwaivable and that the act served to bar this prosecution against defendant, who was found unresponsive in a hotel. The appellate court vacated defendants judgment of sentence.
The trial court properly denied plaintiffs post-trial motions because they were untimely, and the court did not abuse its discretion in precluding plaintiff from offering certain evidence of past conduct.
A plaintiff was not entitled to supplemental attorney fees under the Wage Payment and Collection Law while the underlying judgment was still on appeal. The court denied the additional attorney fee request, without prejudice.
The trial court properly granted a motion in limine precluding testimony by plaintiffs expert witness, and plaintiff failed to demonstrate any prejudice as the result of that ruling.