Verdicts

Summary Judgment Affirmed – Race Discrimination – Philadelphia Emily Mahler & Catherine Straggas

A manager employed by the Philadelphia Housing Authority for over 12 years alleged she was discharged from employment due to her race and national origin. Plaintiff sought damages totaling $300,000 for lost wages, compensatory damages and punitive damages. In June 2014,...

Summary Judgment Somerset County, PA, for Church

Our Pittsburgh colleague, Stephen Plonski, successfully argued a Summary Judgment motion involving a trip and fall in a social hall of our church client’s facility. The plaintiff, a member of the congregation, alleged a serving cart had been placed over a rug causing it to...

Defense Verdict for Duct Cleaning Service client for Fred Lachat in Catastrophic 2.7 Million Restaurant Fire Loss

A 14 day trial before a Chester County, PA, jury resulted in a defense verdict for Philadelphia partner, Fred Lachat. The jury returned a verdict finding our duct cleaning service client was negligent, but not finding that the negligence was a factual cause of the fire. Fred retained cause and...

Partner Michael Badowski obtain Summary Judgment for Pediatric Orthopedist

Summary judgment was achieved for our pediatric orthopedist client in a case of first impression in Pennsylvania dealing with allegations of negligent failure to report suspected child abuse under Pennsylvania's child abuse reporting statute. Briefly, our client assessed three month old infant...

Summary Judgment for Mental Health Facility in Claim Involving Suicide by a Juvenile

In a case handled by James R. Kahn and Paul F. Weisbein involving a teenager who had committed suicide at a juvenile mental health facility, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the facility summary judgment on civil immunity grounds. This decision was then affirmed by the Court of Appeals...

Summary Judgment Granted on Political Discrimination Lawsuit in Federal Court – Partner Christopher A. Tinari and Associate Michael R. Miller Prevail on Summary Judgment in Contentious Political Appointment Case

Philadelphia Partner Christopher A. Tinari and Michael R. Miller obtained summary judgment in the matter of <em>Young v. Butler Township</em> before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff, a road foreman employed for over twenty years with the...

Partner Michael Badowski Wins on Appeal

In a case tried and argued by Margolis Edelstein partner, Michael Badowski, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed and vacated a $750,000 jury award in a retained sponge case with a factual twist. In 1993, the Plaintiff had a c-section delivery at our client Hospital. In 1997, she developed...

Dram Shop/Premises Security – Defense Verdict – Camden County, New Jersey

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...

Summary Judgment Granted in Constitutional Due Process Lawsuit in Federal Court – Partner Christopher A. Tinari and Associate Michael R. Miller Prevail on Motion to Dismiss Dispute over Operations at a Local Airport

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...

Partner Michael Badowski Secures Dismissal for Urology Group

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...

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