Saranac Hale Spencer

November 06, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Class counsel who settled a wage-and-hour suit brought by tellers at TD Bank for $6 million have been awarded $1.2 million in attorney fees.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

November 05, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The hunt for a stolen woolly mammoth tusk that led to a conviction for child pornography has now contributed to the Third Circuit's building case law against the suppression of evidence.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

November 04, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge in Pittsburgh entered the extreme sanction of default judgment against a French drone-maker that was facing allegations of patent infringement.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

November 04, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Nearly 200 former football players have opted out of the settlement for the class action suit over concussions against the NFL.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

November 04, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Nearly 200 former football players have opted out of the settlement for the class action suit over concussions against the NFL.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

November 03, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The question of how relaxed the court should be in taking up appeals when requests for arbitration are denied was before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit last week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 31, 2014 | Law.com

On the eve of Halloween, a federal judge in Reading, Pa., reasserted that Stan Lee Media Inc. doesn't own Spider-Man.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 30, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The suit alleging that Comcast monopolized the Philadelphia-area cable market—which had gone to the U.S. Supreme Court where it became part of the high court's shift toward stricter standards for class certification—is settling for $50 million in cash and services, according to court papers filed this week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 29, 2014 | Law.com

One co-anchor's role in getting the other fired over a racial slur ties their employer, Fox 29, closely enough to the resulting lawsuit that the case has withstood summary judgment twice.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

October 28, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's three federal trial courts fall roughly in the middle of a ranking of the country's nearly 100 district courts for workload per judge.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read