Saranac Hale Spencer

October 27, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Littler Mendelson has been ordered to pay sanctions in a case that it won on summary judgment in federal court in Philadelphia.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

October 27, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Wages for U.S. workers are being kept down by the federal Department of Labor's method for setting the bar that allows employers to bring in foreign workers, a lawyer for a farmworker-rights organization argued to the Third Circuit late last week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 24, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Whether Dodd-Frank's ban on agreements to arbitrate whistleblower actions can be applied retroactively was before the Third Circuit on Thursday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

October 23, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A private hospital and a public university could face millions of dollars in damages since a nursing student won summary judgment on her civil rights claim after she was tossed out of her graduate program for refusing to take a drug test.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 23, 2014 | Law.com

After broaching the issue in a nonprecedential opinion released last summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit suggested during arguments Tuesday morning that it might soon answer definitively whether the catalyst theory for recovering attorney fees applies in ERISA cases.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Where the burden falls for investigating the fitness of arbitrators could determine the outcome of a multimillion-dollar suit against investment bank Goldman Sachs.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

More than 20 cases brought against health insurance company Aetna have been centralized in federal court in Philadelphia.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A nursing and rehabilitation facility chain is paying $38 million to settle claims that it defrauded Medicare and Medicaid programs by billing for substandard care in what the U.S. Department of Justice is calling the largest failure-of-care settlement with a chain of this type yet.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

October 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Lancaster, Pa.-based thermal technology company is settling False Claims Act allegations for $965,000, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

2 minute read

October 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a split opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has revived a suit over the sale of assets from a now-defunct biotechnology company.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read