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Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Education
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Erdos
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Case Number: 190900684
Appellant former teacher appealed the court's dismissal of his defamation and tortious interference claims against his school's former principal. Appellant further appealed the court's judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of his former employer, appellee school, and appellee school president. The court requested that its judgment on the jury verdict be affirmed and the case remanded for further proceedings with respect to appellant's defamation claim.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Covey
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Case Number: 1017 C.D. 2022
Board properly denied claimant's petition as untimely filed because claimant did not appeal to the board, within 20 days of receiving WCJ's August 2021 order, and request that the board make its March 25, 2021 decision final so he could appeal to the court. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Retail
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 3059 EDA 2022
Trial properly applied an adverse inference to one appellant's failure to testify at trial in employment contract action because appellants' counsel did not inform court of appellant's medical condition until after trial started and never asked for an accommodation until after the verdict and appellees' expert witness was qualified to testify as to the value of the company. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Beetlestone
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Case Number: 23-2281
Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's complaint alleging racial discrimination, hostile work environment and related claims arising from defendants' race-training programs and requirements in a university academic setting. The court granted in part and denied in part defendants' motion.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 554 C.D. 2022
Board erred in reversing Worker's Compensation Judge's denial of that part of claimant's workers' compensation petition related to aggravation of her preexisting anxiety and depression because the causal connection between claimant's shoulder injury and the alleged aggravation of her preexisting anxiety and depression were not well pleaded and employer did not lose its ability to contest that issue by filing a late answer to the claim petition. Reversed.
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Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Education | Recruitment and Staffing
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Wojcik
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Case Number: 964 C.D. 2022
Claimant argued Workers' Compensation Judge's decision granting claimant's claim petition for a closed period, denying her penalty petition and granting employer's termination petition did not meet the reasoned decision requirements of Section 422(a) of the Workers' Compensation Act and court found board did not address that claim and vacated and remanded for board to consider the issue. Vacated.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Consulting | Health Care | State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Jubelirer
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Case Number: 710 C.D. 2021
Unemployment benefits claimant appealed the denial of benefits on the grounds he was self-employed and court found no error in Unemployment Compensation Board of Review's reasoning that the positive steps analysis was applicable to a determination of whether an individual was self-employed in a stand-alone context under the law after he had been separated from his employment and, under that analysis, claimant was self-employed under the law. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-12-25
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 145 M.D. 2023
Claimant filed a complaint sounding in contract, quasi-contract, and mandamus to enforce an alleged compromise and release agreement in workers' compensation case and court held there was no valid and enforceable C&R agreement as a matter of law. Complaint dismissed.
Publication Date: 2023-12-19
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Phipps
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Case Number: 22-1829
Plaintiffs appealed the adverse summary judgment entered by the district court.
Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Recruitment and Staffing | Transportation
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leavitt
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Case Number: 1329 C.D. 2022
Board erred in affirming Workers' Compensation Judge and finding claimant truck driver's "mental/mental" injury arose from an abnormal working condition, a fire in a tractor trailer truck, because claimant acknowledged he could anticipate a truck fire, had been trained how to respond to a fire and the relatively minor fire that was quickly extinguished was not an "extraordinarily unusual and distressing" employment event for a truck driver. Reversed.
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