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5 May 2024, 1:09 pm
2024 NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL CHAMPIONS ABINGTON HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOLCLARKS SUMMIT, LACKAWANNA COUNTYPENNSYLVANIAThe Abington Heights High School Mock Trial Team from Clarks Summit, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania won the National Championship during a Tournament this past weekend in Wilmington, Delaware on May 4, 2024. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 5:00 am
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas reviewed the current status of Pennsylvania law relative to certain aspects of class action. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 5:00 am
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas addressed Preliminary Objections filed by the owner and operator of a skilled nursing home facility seeking to compel the Plaintiff to submit this litigation to binding Arbitration pursuant to an Arbitration Agreement. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 5:00 am
The court granted certain defendants motion to transfer a case under the doctrine known as forum non conveniens in a medical malpractice action that was filed in Lackawanna County and which was transferred to Lycoming County by virtue of this decision. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 5:00 am
.), the Court remanded the case back to the state court after finding that the defendant’s notice of removal was procedurally defective in that it was untimely.According to the opinion, this matter arose out of the alleged termination of the plaintiff’s employment while he pursued worker’s compensation benefits.The plaintiff originally filed suit in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 5:24 am
R.C.P. 1028(a)(3) and Lackawanna County Local Rule 1019. [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 9:27 am
In the case of Webb v. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 5:00 am
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas granted a medical malpractice Defendant’s Moton to Compel a Plaintiff to provide various items in discovery. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 5:00 am
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas applied the law related to request for the entry of a judgment non pros and found that the record established that the Plaintiffs had failed to exercise due diligence in litigating the case with reasonable promptitude, that no legitimate reason existed in ordinate delay, and that the Defendant had suffered a substantial diminution in its ability to defend the case due to the death of a party, the retirement of former employees… [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 11:00 pm
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas addressed various Preliminary Objections filed by Defendants in a medical malpractice case.In part, the hospital Defendant filed Preliminary Objections in the nature of a demurrer to the Plaintiff’s vicarious liability claims for failing to identify its alleged agents by name and failing to specify their agency authority. [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 5:00 am
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas addressed a Petition for Transfer under the doctrine of forum non conveniens and denied the same.In his Opinion, Judge Nealon addressed the current status of the law regarding this doctrine and noted that the law had been chipped away at by recent decisions calling into question the continued validity of the arguments made under this doctrine, especially in light of the need to show that the jurisdiction chosen by the Plaintiff… [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 5:00 am
Griffey, a plaintiff from Chester County, Pennsylvania, who was involved in an accident with a Lancaster County tractor-trailer driver in a Montgomery County accident, filed a lawsuit against the driver and his employer, which maintained its principal place of business in Idaho and had a single facility in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the Lackawanna County Common Pleas Court.The defendant driver and his employer filed a forum non conveniens… [read post]
20 Nov 2023, 5:00 am
Based upon the specific defenses raised by the owner during that trial, another judge of the court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County held that the owner’s unconfined and unsecured dog entered the Plaintiff’s home and knocked her down the steps, and that the dog owner was, therefore, found to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of violating the above-referenced section of the dog law. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 5:00 am
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas addressed a Petition for Transfer under the doctrine of forum non conveniens and denied the same. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 7:28 am
Since 2019, several nursing homes in Lackawanna County have faced collective fines exceeding $1.3 million, as reported by The Times-Tribune. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 5:00 am
Super. 2009), app. denied, 989 A.2d 914 (Pa. 2010), along with a string cite of Lackawanna County cases. [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 11:00 pm
Nealon of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas in the case of Venosh v. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 10:59 am
The post Seek Justice for Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect in Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Wayne Counties with DLP’s Experienced Legal Team – Part 2 of ‘Harm’ Investigation at Nursing Homes by The Times-Tribune appeared first on Dougherty Leventhal & Price, LLP. [read post]
24 Jul 2023, 5:00 am
In her decision, Judge Munley cited to previous decisions by her colleague on the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, Judge Terrence R. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 5:00 am
The New York Defendants filed a Preliminary Objection asserting improper venue in Lackawanna County since the Defendant motorist could not be served in Lackawanna County, given that the Defendant driver’s employer did not regularly conduct business in Lackawanna County, and given that the cause of the action arose in Lycoming County.In the alternative, the Defendants filed a Petition to Transfer Venue to Lycoming County under Pa. [read post]
