Saranac Hale Spencer
April 16, 2012 | Law.com
Antitrust, Monopoly Claims Narrowed, Can Proceed to Jury in Comcast SuitAntitrust and monopoly allegations filed nearly 10 years ago against Comcast can proceed to a jury, a federal judge ruled last week.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
4 minute read
June 12, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer
Third Circuit Hears Challenge to State's Funeral Director LawThe two dozen funeral directors who allege that Pennsylvania's Funeral Director Law is largely unconstitutional won on all but one claim after five years of litigation in the district court.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
5 minute read
May 21, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer
Comcast Wins Dismissal of Proposed Class ActionComcast's offer to remedy all of the plaintiffs' claims after a suit was filed in the Northern District of Illinois late last year rendered moot the same plaintiffs' proposed class action in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a federal judge has ruled.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
4 minute read
November 15, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer
3rd Circuit Weighs Judicial Bias Claim In Kids-for-Cash CaseLayers of judicial reflection stacked like Descartes' wax on the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
5 minute read
January 23, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer
Legal Mal Case Tied to Suit Against Dentist Clears HurdleA federal judge in Philadelphia has allowed legal malpractice claims to survive a motion to dismiss, weighing in on an issue over which courts in the Third Circuit have been split.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
4 minute read
June 19, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer
Judge Wants Discovery Before Ruling on ArbitrationPennsylvania-based information-technology company Unisys Corp. can't enforce an agreement to compel arbitration in an age-discrimination suit brought by former employees who were fired by the company before they signed an employment agreement that had an arbitration clause with an outsourcing company, a federal judge has ruled.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
4 minute read
April 29, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer
Medicare Part D Qui Tam Lawsuit on Track for DiscoveryAs a qui tam suit alleging fraud against one of the biggest private contractors for the multibillion-dollar Medicare Part D prescription-drug program heads toward discovery, a federal judge has defined the parameters for the discovery process.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
5 minute read
January 30, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer
Federal Judge Rules Insurer Not Entitled to Client's DocumentsFunding the defense doesn't make you a co-client entitled to see all of the privileged documents in a case, a federal judge has ruled, interpreting unsettled Pennsylvania law over which federal and state courts have been split.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
6 minute read
May 28, 2013 | Law.com
Insurance Co. Emails Shielded From DiscoveryA federal magistrate judge has ruled in a bad-faith case that documents produced by an in-house attorney at an insurance company who was also acting as an adjuster — emails, letters and an uninsured motorist worksheet — are shielded by the attorney-client privilege.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
4 minute read
April 02, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer
GSK's 'Nerve Center' In Del., Judge RulesDisagreeing with two of his colleagues in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a federal judge has ruled that GlaxoSmithKline is based in Delaware, which means that drug products liability litigation against the company will remain in federal court.
By Saranac Hale Spencer
5 minute read
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