Saranac Hale Spencer

July 10, 2012 | Law.com

Attorney-client privilege can attach to communication between a lawyer and a third-party contractor who worked closely enough with a company to be seen as the functional equivalent of an employee, a federal district judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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October 26, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

All but one of the claims lodged by Montgomery County's recorder of deeds alleging that Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. has circumvented Pennsylvania law requiring the recording of mortgage assignments have survived a motion to dismiss in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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January 09, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The widow of a man who died after being severely burned in a tractor-trailer collision on Interstate 78 has been awarded a verdict of $2.4 million in a non-jury proceeding before a federal judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 27, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A defamation claim against Merck and its in-house counsel can't proceed because it rested on a letter stating the lawyer's opinion, which is not capable of being defamatory, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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February 05, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Stopping just short of directing the district court to double the restitution owed by former state Senator Vincent Fumo to a nonprofit organization from which he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit gave the district court strict instructions for resentencing.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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August 23, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has certified a class of blood banks and hospitals that are bringing antitrust claims against two major manufacturers of blood reagents.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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April 25, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A law firm that referred cases to a class action RICO suit that settled for hundreds of millions of dollars in 2009 lost its bid to collect $926,000 from one of the prevailing attorneys.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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April 12, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The original court records for juveniles who were sent to Luzerne County detention facilities in the "kids-for-cash" scandal will stay closed, a federal judge ruled this week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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June 01, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Two law firms holding documents sought by a federal grand jury in a tax probe got some breathing room from an appeals court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 15, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

An Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge has ruled that allegations that a former chief technology officer sabotaged a planned merger by sending information stored securely on executives' computers to potential suitors did not bring into play the protections of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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