October 30, 2020
Pittsburgh's federal court district has ordered a halt to nearly all jury trials until February, saying the pandemic's recent push to new peaks is preventing courts from acquiring a "full, unhindered, continuously serving jury" and cutting defense lawyers off from their jailed clients.
June 12, 2020
Lawsuits against Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, will no longer get a blanket delay to allow employees to focus their attention on the COVID-19 pandemic and must instead be addressed on a case-by-case basis, a federal judge has ordered.
April 15, 2020
Allegheny County has asked a Pittsburgh federal court to continue the pause on more than a dozen cases against it so officials in Pennsylvania's second-largest county could concentrate their efforts on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.