Saranac Hale Spencer

September 23, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two lawyers who were offered as expert witnesses in a trial set to start next week can testify, a federal magistrate judge has ruled. What they can testify about has been limited, though.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

September 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has remanded a case originally brought under the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to state court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

September 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former football players who have questioned the terms of the settlement reached this summer with the NFL over head injuries asked the federal judge handling the case to push back the deadline for opting out of the settlement.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

2 minute read

September 19, 2014 | Law.com

A marketing director who blew the whistle on the pharmaceutical company she worked for can bring her state-law claim that she was forced out of her job in retaliation in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

September 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The four nominees to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania have won approval from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, which voted Thursday morning to move them to the Senate floor for a full vote.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

September 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A former managing partner of several medical centers—who has twice been found liable for insurance fraud—testified in the highly contentious case between two of Philadelphia's personal-injury firms that Lundy Law had required payments from him before it would refer clients to his offices.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

September 17, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Since a federal judge agreed to join a Pennsylvania-based bank to a lawsuit against the owner and operator of the mortgage recording system MERS, the case has bounced back to the state court where it was first filed.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

September 16, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A heavy-equipment dealer that alleged a competitor had torpedoed its impending exclusivity deal with Hyundai by sending an allegedly defamatory eleventh-hour email to the president of Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas won a new trial on damages in federal court in Pittsburgh.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

September 15, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Number-crunchers for both the NFL and the former players who sued the league after they suffered head injuries found that the original settlement amount of $760 million—which was rejected in January by the federal judge handling the case—would have been able to cover the claims former players are likely to make over the next 65 years.
That actuarial information, which had been kept confidential from all but a small number of lawyers representing the thousands of plaintiffs in the case, has been a source of contention over the last year as dozens of lawyers in the case sought to get access to it. The two reports were disclosed Friday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

September 12, 2014 | Law.com

A suit alleging mass-market fraud on the part of Zions First National Bank and its subsidiaries gave the Third Circuit a chance to examine the standards for class certification.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read