Home improvement company West Shore Home is suing a New York City ad agency over alleged trademark violations. The agency, Union Square Media Group LLC, allegedly used a
Regional environmental group Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association is asking a federal judge to shut down York-area salvage yard J&K Salvage following a February fire that resulted in an oil spill in an unnamed tributary of Codorus Creek. The riverkeeper sued J&K last year for allegedly operating without a required environmental permit and is seeking the company’s closure […]
For nearly six decades, McNees Wallace & Nurick has occupied a prime piece of Harrisburg real estate — a nine-story office building overlooking the Susquehanna River. But sometime in 2027, the law firm expects to cross the river into somewhat smaller digs in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County. McNees has inked a 20-year lease for a roughly […]
As more organizations explore the practical implementation of machine learning and artificial intelligence models to solve real-world business problems, law firms are taking note. Phil Saunders, the CEO of Relativity, a legal data intelligence company, noted in an interview with Law360 that, “AI has become a defining part of how legal tasks get done.” Regional […]
A lawsuit over Lancaster County farmland that was rezoned for industrial use is heading back down the legal ladder. In a ruling this week, Commonwealth Court struck down a county court decision upholding the rezoning, which was requested by a warehouse operator in West Hempfield Township. The ruling sends the matter back to the county […]
After filing for bankruptcy last fall, York-based senior-living operator SpiriTrust Lutheran is taking a step closer to selling off its assets. After conducting a court-supervised auction, the nonprofit has identified a western Pennsylvania operator as the successful bidder, spurning a competing offer from a New Jersey organization. If a judge signs off, Butler County-based Concordia Lutheran Ministries would pay […]
Should a woman injured during an Uber ride be able to bring her case before a jury, or should she be forced into arbitration under the terms and conditions she and her husband accepted when signing up for the ride-sharing service? Advocates for a jury trial have been hoping the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would settle the matter in […]
As employers struggle to bring workers back to the office, they face a new wrinkle, one that did not exist before the pandemic-induced pivot to remote work. Depending on the job, the option to work from home is becoming an accepted accommodation for people with disabilities. “Definitely the trend is heading in that direction,” said […]
Investors from Lancaster County are suing a State College hotel operator for allegedly misleading them before and after they invested in a Mechanicsburg-area hotel. The federal lawsuit accuses Shaner Hotel Group with supplying “false, misleading and incomplete information” while it was marketing the hotel investment in 2018. The suit further alleges that Shaner’s management of the hotel […]
A state appeals court has rebuffed a company challenging a state tax reassessment, the latest ruling in a string of decisions related to laws governing the use of past operating losses to reduce corporate tax bills. This one goes back more than a decade. In 2013, Dow Chemical Co. used past losses to offset all its […]