Saranac Hale Spencer

February 03, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal government has failed in its attempt to get out of a multimillion-dollar suit over the cleanup of a radioactive waste disposal site in central Pennsylvania, even though it already agreed to pay the state $10 million a decade ago, under a federal judge's order.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

February 02, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal government has failed in its attempt to get out of a multimillion-dollar suit over the cleanup of a radioactive waste disposal site in central Pennsylvania, even though it already agreed to pay the state $10 million a decade ago, under a federal judge's order.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

February 02, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said she will take senior status in July.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 30, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said she will take senior status in July.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 30, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge in Pittsburgh has taken the unusual step of tossing the class allegations from a suit brought by neighbors of a coal-fired power plant before they had even moved for class certification.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 29, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge in Pittsburgh has taken the unusual step of tossing the class allegations from a suit brought by neighbors of a coal-fired power plant before they had even moved for class certification.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 29, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Challenges to reverse-payment settlements—the deals made by major pharmaceutical companies with generic drugmakers in order to keep the cheaper drugs off the market—don't have a new threshold to meet, a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled in an opinion defining the contours left open in a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 29, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The grocery stores and restaurants that have alleged price-fixing among the country's major egg producers can present an economist as an expert witness while they seek to get class certification, the federal judge handling the case has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 28, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Challenges to reverse-payment settlements—the deals made by major pharmaceutical companies with generic drugmakers in order to keep the cheaper drugs off the market—don't have a new threshold to meet, a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled in an opinion defining the contours left open in a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 28, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The grocery stores and restaurants that have alleged price-fixing among the country's major egg producers can present an economist as an expert witness while they seek to get class certification, the federal judge handling the case has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read