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Luzerne County Court Denies Amendment to Add Punitive Damages for Post-Incident Conduct in Dog-Bite Case
Pavlik v. Smith, No. 2024-CV-09109 (Pa. Com. Pl. Aug. 1, 2025) – The plaintiff sought the amend her complaint to add a claim of negligence per se, to add a theory of joint and several liability against both defendants and, most notably, to include a claim for punitive damages for post-incident conduct by the defendants…
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First Department Rejects De Minimis Defense, Grants Summary Judgment for Worker’s Fall Under Labor Law 240(1)
Palumbo v. Citigroup Tech., Inc., 2025 NY Slip Op 04298, July 24, 2025 – The First Department has held that a fall from a height of 10 ½ to 20 inches is not a bar to summary judgment because the height differential is not, as a matter of law, de minimus. In this case, the…
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Court Grants Summary Judgment to Grocery Store Where Plaintiff Failed to Show Cause of Fall or Notice of Hazard
Staley v. Price Chopper Market 32, docket no. 3908 CIVIL 2024 (Pa. Com. Pl. Aug. 11, 2025) – The plaintiff alleged that she slipped and fell in the women’s restroom of the defendant’s grocery store. The plaintiff claimed she slipped on some unknown substance, which caused her to fall and strike the toilet. After discovery…
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Superior Court Affirms Defense Verdict, No Adverse Spoliation Inference Where Lost Video Did Not Capture Incident or Contain Relevant Evidence
Conklin v. Wawa, 2025 WL 2237319 (Pa. Super. 2025) – The plaintiff tripped and fell on a floor mat near the beverage area in the defendant’s store. After the incident, a store employee reviewed surveillance footage from the day of the incident, but was unable to observe the plaintiff’s fall since the area was not…
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2 Arrested After Stabbing on Train Near Cambridge, England
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain denounced the attack, which the police said left nine victims with “life-threatening injuries.”
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Trump Threatens Military Action in Nigeria Over Protections for Christians
Accusing Nigeria of not doing enough to protect Christians from violence, President Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to prepare for action.
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Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Ad Reviving Reagan’s Tariff Criticism
The Canadian prime minister also said that he had asked the province of Ontario not to air the ad that later prompted the president to end trade talks.
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MGM+’s “Robin Hood” Dazzles With Its Craft, Yet Lacks the Allure to Justify Its Creation
As of 2025, it feels like there is no story that has been adapted as frequently as that of folklore legend Robin Hood. Adaptations of popular fables and literature have been playing fast and loose with their source material as of late, no doubt in an attempt to satisfy audiences that have grown tired of…
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This Genetically Engineered Fungus Could Help Fix Your Mosquito Problem
In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.
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Trump Administration Must Make Food Stamp Payments Within Days, Judge Says
The written order came one day after a court told the Trump administration it must pay benefits in the program known as SNAP during the shutdown.
