Wins

On September 17, 2025, the Superior Court of New Jersey – Mercer County granted summary judgment to Littleton Joyce’s client, an Energy Company, and dismissed the Plaintiff’s $3,600,000 liquidated damages claim with prejudice. The claims in the lawsuit were centered on a solar power plant and related Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”). Plaintiff agreed to build…

Littleton Joyce is pleased to announce it obtained a defense verdict in favor of SIG SAUER in a trial held in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The case arose out of an October 19, 2019 accidental discharge incident in which the plaintiff, a police officer, pulled the trigger of his…

Defense verdicts happen, even in this era of nuclear verdicts and post-Covid distrust! LJUK’s trial team of Scott Toomey, Keith Gibson, and Keith Sipprelle recently won a defense verdict in a bicycle helmet product liability design defect case after a trial that spanned four weeks in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court. Plaintiff, a former…

C. Scott Toomey and Ericka A. Esposito obtained a defense verdict in the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania after a five-day jury trial. The case involved an industrial accident with a significant workers’ compensation lien and future care claims for a sympathetic plaintiff that never returned to work after the accident. Plaintiff’s case-in-chief…

On September 14, 2023, in the latest of a string of decisions obtained by LPJUK upholding Rule 702’s and Daubert’s requirements that a trial court ensure that an expert’s testimony rests on a reliable foundation and is relevant to the task at hand, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York…

Michael H. Bai and Kristen E. Dennison obtained a defense verdict in the Court of Common Pleas, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania on behalf of DN Solutions America Corp., formerly known as Doosan Machine Tools America Corp.  This commercial action arose out of a breach of warranty claim by Plaintiff Bear Manufacturing, LLC against DN Solutions America…

Littleton Park’s Robert Joyce and Eric Goldberg recently secured an eight-figure settlement on behalf of a subcontractor client in its lawsuit against a surety on a power plant construction project.  The client’s sub-subcontractor abandoned the project and filed for bankruptcy, leaving significant work remaining under its contract.  The client then made a claim under the…

Scott Toomey and Dan Kain obtained a defense verdict in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of Siemens Industry, Inc.  The case arose out of finger amputation injuries sustained by Plaintiff Sean Elgert while performing routine maintenance on a telescopic conveyer located in a Philadelphia-area UPS distribution center.  Plaintiff alleged that a design defect…

Following a two-week arbitration hearing, Littleton Park’s Robert Joyce and Eric Goldberg secured a victory for a subcontractor client in its breach of contract action against the prime contractor on a major project to rehabilitate one of the New York City subway system’s transit lines.  The dispute arose out of the prime contractor’s refusal to…

In a resounding victory for firm client Pep Boys, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld Judge J. Curtis Joyner of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s decision that appellant Vickie Thorne lacks standing to bring her class action complaint.  Vickie Thorne brought her putative class action against Pep Boys pursuant to…