Berkeley Heights Partner Emery Mishky, and Associate Victoria Adornetto, successfully defended a tavern against allegations by a responding police officer. The plaintiff claimed that during the struggle that ensued during the arrest of a grossly intoxicated patron, who had been served alcoholic...
Philadelphia Partner Christopher A. Tinari and Michael R. Miller obtained dismissal of a Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process claim by successfully arguing to the Court that our clients had not impeded on any known right protected by the Constitution. The plaintiff, a commercial fixed based...
Margolis Edelstein was called upon to defend a urology practice and its physician urologists in five separately filed lawsuits involving allegations of negligent transmission of hepatitis C. For many years, the urology group unknowingly conducted in-office prostate biopsies using reprocessed...
Philadelphia partner James R. Kahn obtains a nonsuit in Philadelphia state court on behalf of a major teaching hospital accused of unfairly limiting a surgeon's credentials.
Philadelphia partner Catherine Straggas and Associate Emily Mahler obtained summary judgment resulting in the dismissal of a race and national origin discrimination suit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against a Commonwealth agency in Philadelphia,...
Philadelphia partner Christopher Tinari and Associates Emily Mahler prevailed on preliminary objections to Plaintiffs' Complaint in action brought by Church's former pastors against the Church and its board of directors in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs alleged they were unlawfully...
Philadelphia partner James R. Kahn obtains a defense verdict in Philadelphia state court on behalf of an orthopedic surgeon accused of improper spine surgery.
Philadelphia Partner Christopher A. Tinari and Michael R. Miller obtained dismissal of a Complaint attempting to grieve an at-will employment termination. The plaintiff, a marketing director, contended he provided sufficient consideration to convert at-will employment into a contractual right which...
Philadelphia partner James R. Kahn obtains a nonsuit in Philadelphia state court on behalf of an obstetrician accused of negligently supervising a VBAC delivery that resulted in a uterine rupture.
Philadelphia partner Christopher Tinari and Associate Emily Mahler prevailed at arbitration of an alleged violation of a collective bargaining agreement filed by the Service Employees International Union with the American Arbitration Association against a healthcare provider in Philadelphia,...