Joshua and Sandra Greenberg hold a scrapbook of their daughter. Read more David Swanson / Staff Photographer
by Stephanie Farr Published Oct. 14, 2025, 3:31 p.m. ET
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Linda Carpenter closed the record on the Ellen Greenberg case at a hearing Tuesday, after attorneys for both sides agreed that the matter at hand — the city’s review of the case — has been completed.
The remote hearing on Zoom resulted from a motion to compel the city to produce its promised reexamination of the case. That reexamination was part of an agreement Greenberg’s parents, Joshua and Sandra, reached with the city in February to settle two lawsuits against Philadelphia authorities for their investigations into their daughter’s death.
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