Matthew Santoni

Even as the Pennsylvania General Assembly has struggled to agree to a state budget since the summer deadline passed, legislators have introduced and advanced bills dealing with perennial topics like cannabis legalization or responding to newer concerns like AI-fueled fraud.

The gas development and gathering arm of New York utility National Fuel Gas Co. has been hit with criminal charges, accused of violating Pennsylvania environmental laws, state Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Friday.

A Charlotte, North Carolina, fire chief says he has reached a settlement with the city over his claims of racial bias, years after he thought the deal was done the first time.

An Ohio federal judge has granted a request from class counsel to advance a bid to hold the administrator of Norfolk Southern's $600 million derailment settlement in contempt without having to wait for the results of a court-ordered audit. 

A Pennsylvania university was hit with a proposed class action in federal court after announcing it had suffered a data breach early this year, potentially affecting more than 27,600 current and former students.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider whether insurance policy language blocking coverage for injuries "arising out of" the ownership or use of "autos" was unclear enough to be interpreted in favor of granting coverage for an accident involving a small terminal tractor truck.

A proposed class action against 32 colleges and universities fails to turn the "early decision" application process into an alleged conspiracy not to compete for applicants, in part because the schools have no reason to entice committed students away from their first choice of colleges, the defendants argued to a Massachusetts federal court.

A defunct Pennsylvania coal processor will pay the federal government $700,000 in fines after its employees admitted to bypassing pollution controls at an Erie coke plant, according to court records.

A Pennsylvania town's "conditional use" zoning requirements that restrict gun shops operating in certain parts of town are preempted by laws that say only the state Legislature can regulate guns, a split state appellate court found Oct. 9.

A Pennsylvania town's "conditional use" zoning requirements that restrict gun shops operating in certain parts of town are preempted by laws that say only the state Legislature can regulate guns, a split state appellate court found Thursday.

Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. says the pending Chapter 11 proceedings for its hospitals in California and Connecticut should keep two technology companies from demanding more than $1 million in payment for disputed software and IT contracts, according to Prospect's filings with a Texas bankruptcy court on Monday.

A former executive at a company providing assistance to people with intellectual disabilities and autism claimed in a lawsuit that he was misled over whether he was officially promoted, even as the company held him out to state regulators and banks as the chief executive officer.

The Third Circuit will not review a Pennsylvania federal judge's order decertifying a class of American Airlines pilots who claim they were denied pay and profit-sharing benefits during their time off on military leave, the court announced Monday.

The Third Circuit will not review a Pennsylvania federal judge's order decertifying a class of American Airlines pilots who claim they were denied pay and profit-sharing benefits during their time off on military leave, the court announced Monday.

Nearly 150 residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, say plaintiffs' lawyers misled them into joining a $600 million deal with Norfolk Southern by concealing experts' testing and community members who got sick after a fiery 2023 derailment, according to a motion asking a federal judge to let them out of the settlement.

Nearly 150 residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, say plaintiffs' lawyers misled them into joining a $600 million deal with Norfolk Southern by concealing experts' testing and community members who got sick after a fiery 2023 derailment, according to a motion asking a federal judge to let them out of the settlement.

A Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky attorney was also acting as Mellon heir Richard Scaife's lawyer, trustee and media executive when he signed releases that kept Scaife's spending of his inheritance secret from his children, so a resulting $200 million settlement between the children and Scaife's estate was not a bona fide tax-exempt expense, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The introduction of compensation for college athletes may have changed the economic effects of the NCAA's eligibility rules, but a Third Circuit panel wondered Wednesday whether enough analysis on the specific effects had been done to justify suspending one of those rules for a Rutgers University football player.

Atty Gets $4.3M Judgment Against Crypto Investment Cos.

A company providing staff and support to airlines at Pittsburgh International Airport must face most of a former agent's claims it retaliated against her for seeking time to pump breast milk at work, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.