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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...