Inmate, Caine Pelzer, 45, entered solitary confinement in 2009 for gang-related assaults, records show. He sued Pennsylvania Department of Corrections over restricted status when he was at SCI Albion.
Kelvin Jefferson led men's basketball team at Gannon University for four years when he was let go in 2023. He claimed breach of contract, which downtown Erie school denied.
Westmoreland commissioners have approved a $150,000 settlement to end a federal lawsuit filed by a New Mexico man who claimed county jail guards brutally beat him two years ago.
A federal civil lawsuit by a former Westmoreland County Prison inmate who was assaulted by a guard last year claims incident reports filed by a dozen other jail staffers contained no mention of the beating.
The out-of-court settlement a Cochranton-area man’s federal civil rights lawsuit brought against two Crawford County corrections officers cost $210,000.
Robert Furgess, a disabled inmate, claims he went three months without a shower in the prison’s restricted housing unit.
An out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed sum has been reached in a federal civil rights lawsuit brought against Crawford County and two county jail corrections officers for the alleged beating of an inmate by guards.
A $1.1 million settlement will end the legal fight between Erie County and the family of a work-release inmate who died in May 2018 after suffering an asthma attack while in the county’s custody.
DA says he asked state police to investigate the July 8 incident at the Crawford County Correctional Facility.
One of the owners of the doughnut shop says there are ‘irreconcilable’ differences between her and her business partner.
Lawsuit claims April Corritore’s death could have been prevented with proper medical care at the Erie County Prison.
Family claims corrections officers repeatedly refused to call 9-1-1 after Felix Manus suffered severe asthma attack.
The 49-year-old inmate claims the prison discriminated against him because he has a disability.
Millcreek Township ended a flap over political signs in September, when the township withdrew a $12,000 civil claim against Republican state Senate nominee Dan Laughlin, who went on to win the race in the 49th District.
The decision in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday could mean that secondary creditors will wait longer to be paid, or might not be paid at all. The decision awards a $611,000 insurance settlement to the company that operated the park Beach Club, reversing a December decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jeffery Deller awarding $478,261 of the settlement to local taxing authorities.
(Erie County Court of Common Pleas) - Represented the family of a baby boy who died shortly after birth when doctors and nurses failed to respond to signs that the baby was in distress during the mother’s labor by taking appropriate measures to save the baby’s life. Reached a major settlement for our client without the need for a trial.