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Publication Date: 2021-03-01
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Education
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 21-0223
Unemployment compensation board of review properly upheld referee's decision refusing to backdate claimant's UC benefit claims pursuant to §401(c) of the UC law and §65.43a of the regulations because claimant's ignorance of the UC claim process and/or negligence was not a basis upon which court could reverse the board. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2021-03-01
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Colville
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Case Number: 21-0228
Plaintiff moved for default judgment in Fair Labor Standards Act action for failure to pay overtime and court found default was appropriate and awarded back pay, liquidated damages and injunctive relief. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2021-02-22
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 21-0160
Public agency's failure to follow regulations in giving applicant for employment notice of their removal from the eligibility list deprived the applicant of fair access to public employment and constituted an adjudication by the agency subject to judicial review. Order of the trial court reversed and remanded.
Publication Date: 2021-02-22
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Brobson
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Case Number: 21-0198
Trial court properly found that borough did not breach police chief's employment contract when it terminated him and since he was hired outside the civil service process, court could not extend the protections of 8 Pa.C.S.§1190(a) to chief under the guise of "public policy." Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2021-02-22
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Education
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 21-0197
Board properly affirmed workers' compensation judge's grant of employer's petition to terminate, dismissing as moot employer's petition to suspend compensation benefits, denying claimant's petition to review benefits and challenge employer's notice of suspension, dismissing claimant's new claim petition and terminating claimant's benefits because WCJ issued a timely interlocutory order granting supersedeas in conjunction with the termination petition, timely ruled on claimant's challenge petition and properly credited employer's docto
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Publication Date: 2021-02-15
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Aerospace
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Crompton
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Case Number: 21-0168
Workers' compensation appeal board properly denied claimant's petition for benefits based on his alleged allergic reaction to his work uniform because workers compensation judge's opinion finding claimant did not meet his burden of proof was based on substantial, competent evidence in the record and was reasoned. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2021-02-08
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Food and Beverage | State and Local Government
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 21-0135
Commonwealth properly held employer was not entitled under §306(a.1) of the workers' compensation act to reimbursement of benefits paid to petitioner during his pre-conviction incarceration because the language in the statues was clear and unambiguous and did not violate equal protection guarantees. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2021-02-08
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge DuBois
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Case Number: 21-0126
Plaintiff's complaint, which alleged that his supervisors at the City of Philadelphia routinely discriminated against him based his status as a devout Christian and forced him to miss attending church on Sundays, sufficiently alleged religious discrimination and retaliation claims under Title II of the Civil Right Act of 1964. The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss.
Publication Date: 2021-02-01
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Restrepo
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Case Number: 21-0105
District court properly found appellant lacked standing to seek a refund of any portion of union dues she paid prior to Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, 138 S.Ct. 2448, if she were due a refund it was not a federal claim and her claim that union could not collect any dues from employees until they waived their constitutional right to resign from union membership and withhold payments to union was moot. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2021-01-25
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Pappert
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Case Number: 21-0062
Where plaintiff alleged that she suffered from a herniated disk and related spinal injuries which caused her pain and limitations, not that her medical marijuana use qualified was a disability under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, the court refused to dismiss her failure to accommodate and retaliation claims under the Act. The court denied defendants' motion to dismiss.
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