On August 24, 2021, East End’s clients Alex Brown and Trent Clayton filed a class action complaint against Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Inc. (“PIAA”) seeking an equal opportunity for wheelchair and other para-ambulatory athletes to qualify for and, upon qualification, compete in PIAA’s Track and Field Championships, beginning in 2022. PIAA regulates interscholastic athletic competition in Pennsylvania. […]
Current Cases
Data Breach Lawsuit Filed Against Blackbaud
On December 18, 2020, East End Trial Group and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP filed a class action complaint on behalf of Christina Duranko in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit alleges Blackbaud, Inc., a South Carolina company hired to provide software and cloud-computing services to Allegheny Health […]
East End Files Brief For Insurance Coverage
On November 4, 2020, East End Trial Group filed an amicus brief in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on behalf of its clients, Thirst Group Corp. and the American Craft Spirits Association. The case concerns Erie Insurance’s failure to cover losses incurred by more than a dozen D.C. restaurants as a result of COVID-19 […]
Mask Tax Lawsuit Filed Against 15 Retailers
On October 22, 2020, East End Trial Group filed a class action complaint against 15 big-box retailers who are alleged to have wrongly charged sales tax on the face masks that Pennsylvanians must purchase to comply with Pennsylvania’s mask mandates. These retailers charged sales tax on masks despite the fact that the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue […]
Court Allows Class Action Against LVNV and Resurgent to Proceed
On February 28, 2020, a federal court largely rejected an attempt by LVNV Funding and Resurgent Capital Services to dismiss a putative class action filed by attorneys Kevin Abramowicz (of East End Trial Group; formerly of BCJ Law) and Mark Moynihan (of Moynihan Law). The case concerns alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices […]