Saranac Hale Spencer

December 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Charges against an American citizen who has allegedly been making counterfeit money in Uganda have been filed in federal court in Pittsburgh.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The lawyers who represented a junior-high girl when she challenged her school district for barring her from the boys' wrestling team have gotten an additional $30,000 in attorney fees and a reprimand from the judge.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 17, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The executive action on immigration announced by President Obama following the midterm elections last month is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Pittsburgh ruled Tuesday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

December 16, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The attorney-client privilege covering communications made in anticipation of a business merger belong to the company that resulted from the merger, not the executives of the company that was swallowed, a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

December 15, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's rule waiving the requirement that out-of-state lawyers take the bar exam in order to join the state's bar only for those who come from a state that allows the same admission to Pennsylvania lawyers is constitutional, although not necessarily prudent, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 15, 2014 | Law.com

The $50 million agreement proposed in October to settle a decade-old case brought by Comcast subscribers who alleged the company had monopolized the local cable market has gotten preliminary approval from the federal judge handling the case.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

3 minute read

December 12, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Cookies—the digital crumbs that mark the trail Internet users make as they wander through the Web—are either a benign method for furnishing Internet users with relevant advertising or they are the foundation of a pernicious invasion of privacy, lawyers argued in front of the Third Circuit on Thursday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

December 10, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Modern sexual habits—such as sexting, for example—may cause a constitutional problem for broad federal statutes aimed at stopping child pornography, but the group of professional pornography producers who are challenging the laws might not be the right plaintiffs to prove that problem.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

December 09, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Overseas contractors pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding the U.S. government of millions of dollars in a multibillion-dollar contract to supply food and water to U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

9 minute read

December 08, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Employers can no longer base the wage at which they're allowed to bring in foreign workers on their own research, the Third Circuit has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read