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HARRISBURG – Some claims and one defendant have been dismissed from litigation between a transgender male state employee and a Pennsylvania-affiliated health care provider, one which he claimed discriminated against him and denied him insurance coverage for his gender/sex-affirming surgery.

HARRISBURG – Due to a question of subject matter jurisdiction, a federal judge has sent litigation pitting a natural gas company against West Rockhill Township and a group of ecologically-concerned citizens to the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board for further proceedings.

Imhram Clarke, 44, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. Middle District Court.

In a tale of two Harrisburg courtrooms this month, two judges weighed the damage done to Luzerne County’s most vulnerable children.

On Wednesday, in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Judge Christopher C. Conner dismissed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction by restaurants affected by Pennsylvania's limited-time mitigation orders prohibiting indoor dining.

The civil damages hearing against disgraced judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael Conahan has gone virtual.

More than 300 people are expected to tell their story at a civil hearing taking place in federal court over the next two weeks in Luzerne County.

From PennLive WILLIAMSPORT — A fired teacher claims a Catholic school in Williamsport provides minority students, particularly African-Americans, with educational opportunities not available to Caucasians. James Ledda, 54, also alleges in an amended complaint in his reverse discrimination suit that at St. John Neumann Regional Academy: African-American students are not held to the same rules of conduct as Caucasian students. White faculty members and administrators are discouraged from imposi...

Seeger Weiss welcomes seasoned litigator Jacksy Bilsborrow as newest partner The MDL veteran joins the firm, bolstering its nationally distinguished environmental, consumer class action, and mass tort practices News provided by Share this article Share this article RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seeger Weiss LLP is proud to announce that James (Jacksy) Bilsborrow, a nationally respected leader in class action, mass tort, and environmental litigation, has joined the firm a...

Feds go after $346K in cash seized during traffic stop on I-81 Updated Apr 01, 2021; The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Harrisburg is asking a federal judge to approve the forfeiture of nearly $346,000 in cash that was discovered during a traffic stop by a state trooper on Interstate 81 that turned out to be anything but routine. The stop for a moving violation occurred on Nov. 17, 2020, in Lebanon County. Prosecutors claim in their filing with U.S. Middle District Judge Christopher C. Conner tha...