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Publication Date: 2022-01-10
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 22-0007
Commonwealth court erred in interpreting §440 to require a per se disqualification of an award of claimant's attorney fees where the employer established a reasonable basis for its contest because that interpretation was contrary to the plain language of the statute. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2022-01-03
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Recruitment and Staffing
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Leeson
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Case Number: 21-1504
Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's cause of action for alter ego liability in his employment termination action against individual defendant and court found Pennsylvania's highest court had held that veil piercing claims were not independent causes of action. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2021-12-27
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Agriculture | Manufacturing
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge McHugh
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Case Number: 21-1502
Given appellate authority emphasizing the primacy of forum selection clauses in determining venue, the court chose to dismiss plaintiff's claim on the basis of a forum selection clause in his employment agreement, leaving the chosen venue to decide the merits of his claim that the contract had been orally modified. The court dismissed plaintiff's claim claims conditionally and without prejudice
Publication Date: 2021-12-27
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Education
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 21-1488
Board erred in finding claimant adjunct professor ineligible for unemployment benefits where he worked for three colleges and only one gave him reasonable assurance of employment for the next term because claimant's loss of employment at two of the colleges where he worked did not trigger the exception in §402.1(1) since neither of those educational institutions gave him reasonable assurance of employment. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2021-12-06
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Mundy
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Case Number: 21-1416
Plaintiff appealed the denial of his workers' compensation claim for injuries from an automobile accident occurring after an employer sponsored event at a pub and court found the traveling employee doctrine applied and claimant did not abandon his employment but that there was an unresolved conflict of testimony as to where claimant was coming from at the time of the accident. Vacated and remanded.
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Publication Date: 2021-11-29
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Education
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
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Case Number: 21-1314
The court held that school board's termination of plaintiff's position as an assistant principal was supported by substantial evidence of a decline in enrollment of almost 8% over four years such that furlough was warranted and the board's decision should not be disturbed on appeal. Notice of appeal dismissed.
Publication Date: 2021-11-29
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Construction | Consulting
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge New
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Case Number: 21-1316
The court held that there was no error in sustaining defendant's preliminary objection to plaintiff's complaint sounding in breach of contract and wrongful termination because the employment contract contained a forum selection clause barring suit anywhere other than Qatar. Alternatively, there was no valid contract between plaintiff and defendant. Appeal denied.
Publication Date: 2021-11-29
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Construction
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Dodge
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Case Number: 21-1385
Defendant moved for partial summary judgment in action over his termination and the enforcement of a non-compete agreement and court found there were genuine issues of material fact as to defendant's alleged willful misconduct that a jury had to resolve. Motion denied.
Publication Date: 2021-11-22
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 21-1356
Police officers were entitled to due process to challenge their placement on list for officers not to be called to testify in criminal trials due to prior allegations of misconduct, as placement on the list injured right of reputation. Order of the trial court affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part.
Publication Date: 2021-11-15
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Insurance
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Ceisler
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Case Number: 21-1320
Board erred in denying claimant's petition because claimant showed she sustained injuries while in the course and scope of her employment when she tripped in building lobby because, while employer did not require her to buy her breakfast in building food court, she had to pass through the area where she fell to reach her workplace and she would not have been in the building "but for her work." Reversed.
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