June 01, 2020
Citing the potential for additional cost and squabbling among the attorneys, a Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday said she would not allow a Philadelphia-area county to take direct responsibility for cutting checks from a potential $14 million settlement to resolve class claims over its illegal publication of criminal records online.
May 19, 2020
A class of nearly 68,000 inmates urged a Pennsylvania federal judge Tuesday to preliminarily approve a $14 million settlement it reached with a Philadelphia-area county that agreed to drop its appeal of a jury's verdict finding each member whose criminal records were illegally made public online is owed $1,000.
July 29, 2019
Pennsylvania's fourth most-populous county asked a federal judge Friday to overturn a $68 million online-privacy verdict against it, saying there was no evidence at trial that the county willfully broke a criminal-records law, "no matter how 'willful' is defined."
May 28, 2019
A suburban Philadelphia county is facing the prospect of $68 million in damages after a federal jury on Tuesday agreed to award $1,000 to each of nearly 68,000 members of a class of individuals whose criminal records were made public online in violation of state law.
May 21, 2019
Officials in a suburban Philadelphia county recklessly disregarded the privacy interests of tens of thousands of individuals whose arrest records, including information about dropped or expunged charges, were posted on a government website, a jury heard during a trial's opening arguments Tuesday.