Home Depot Faces Personal Injury Lawsuit Removed to Federal Court in Pennsylvania

A personal injury lawsuit naming Home Depot USA, Inc. and Home Depot, Inc. as defendants was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on March 10, 2026, with both the plaintiff and the company's legal team demanding the case be decided by a jury.

The case, docketed as 2:26-cv-01521, was brought by plaintiff Adonious Woolard and lists four defendants in total: the two Home Depot corporate entities plus two additional parties whose identities have not been disclosed in court records reviewed to date. Chartwell Law Offices is representing the defendants.

The removal was filed under 28 U.S.C. § 1441, the federal statute that allows defendants to transfer a qualifying civil action from state court to federal court. The case is classified as Torts - Personal Injury - Other (360), with the nature of suit listed as P.I.: Other. Court records do not detail the underlying incident, the location or date of the alleged injury, or the damages Woolard is seeking.

The mutual jury demand is notable: it signals that neither side expects this case to be resolved on pretrial motions alone, and that both are preparing for the possibility of a full trial. No judge has been publicly identified in the available docket information, and no subsequent filings beyond the Notice of Removal have been recorded in the five days since the case entered the federal docket.

The specific circumstances that led Woolard to sue remain undisclosed in available court documents. Without the underlying state-court complaint, which would have been attached to the removal filing, the factual allegations, the nature of the alleged injuries, and the chain of events that brought the case to federal court are not yet part of the public record.