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Stanko | Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin ALLENTOWN – Litigation from a man maimed by a commercial food processing machine against the corporations responsible for manufacturing and marketing the device, has been settled. Alfredo Santiago of Lancaster initially filed a writ of summons in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on April 21, 2020 versus ITW Food Equipment Group, LLC of Troy, Ohio, Hobart World Headquarters of Harrisburg, ILC Investment...

PHILADELPHIA – A lawsuit between a wheelchair-bound Florida man and a Frankford Avenue business in Philadelphia over alleged barriers preventing him from shopping there in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been settled. Plaintiff Owen Harty first filed a complaint on Nov. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against North City Development Co., alleging violation of the ADA. The suit explained the defendant owns Shelley’s Plaza. Harty...

A very good reason, but courts hate sealing documents because the original -- >> was there a good reason here do you think? >> pardon? >> do you think there was a good reason to have this sealed for so long? >> maybe originally, but under the local rules, and i practice in this vurs dictijurisdiction, local rules, court records that are sealed must be reviewed every two years to see if they should continue to be sealed because the presumption is against sealing. after all, courts want records to...