Babcock v. Butler County , WL 688122 (W.D. Pa. February 21, 2014)
Feb 21, 2014OUTCOME: Dismissed
Represented defendant in a putative class action under FLSA alleging failure to pay overtime compensation.
Pittsburgh, PA
Civil rights Lawyer at Pittsburgh, PA
Practice Areas: Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Represented defendant in a putative class action under FLSA alleging failure to pay overtime compensation.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Secured dismissal of defendant clients in a civil rights claim by way of a Motion to Dismiss.
OUTCOME: Settled
Defended a warden and correctional officers in a civil rights lawsuit filed by the estate of an inmate who died of peritonitis while incarcerated. Case proceeded through jury trial.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment for defendants
Defended a prosecutor who filed criminal charges against a political candidate shortly before an election in an alleged effort to jeopardize his candidacy in violation of the First Amendment.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment for defendants
Obtained summary judgment in an Americans with Disabilities Act and civil rights claim alleging that a correctional facility failed to accommodate a paraplegic inmate’s disabilities and subjected him ... to cruel and unusual punishment.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment for defendants
Defended county in challenge to its MPC zoning ordinance under Oil and Gas Act, affirmed on appeal in first precedential Commonwealth Court opinion following Supreme Court’s Huntley & Huntley and Ran ... ge Resources decisions.
OUTCOME: Defense verdict
Secured a defense verdict in a jury trial in which a plaintiff alleged that she sustained injuries as a result of a structure whose design allegedly failed to comply with Americans with Disability Act ... design requirements.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment for defendants
Defended prosecutor, warden, and other government officials in civil rights claim alleging that actions of the defendants resulted in a lengthening of his criminal sentence. Summary judgment was grante ... d, and affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment for defendants
Defended a health care provider in a lawsuit alleging disclosure of protected health information and violations of HIPAA.
OUTCOME: Settled
Defended skilled nursing facility in civil rights claim for alleged violation of the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act; argued appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit who considered ... whether congress intended to create rights individually enforceable via 42 U.S.C. § 1983.