Saranac Hale Spencer

August 13, 2014 | Law.com

Because a closely held company and three of its minority shareholders are now at odds, a federal judge must decide which side holds the attorney-client privilege with the law firm that was paid by the company but used by the shareholders.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

August 12, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Western Pennsylvania drug rehab center was awarded more than $270,000 in attorney fees from the city of DuBois, Pa., in a case that struck down the municipality's zoning restriction of a methadone clinic.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

August 11, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A website allegedly used by one Philadelphia-area financial planner and insurance provider to disparage a competitor is the center of a Lanham Act suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

August 07, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Because Congress has left the courts unarmed, a federal judge said, he wasn't able to find an investment research firm liable for listing a Ponzi scheme in its hedge fund database used by investors.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

August 06, 2014 | Law.com

Litigants can't be expected to prove a negative, the Third Circuit has said.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

August 05, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A commercial landlord won more than $400,000 in attorney fees from a former tenant after it prevailed on its breach of contract claim with representation from Ballard Spahr.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

August 04, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The NAACP has defeated the city of Philadelphia's policies—both written and unwritten—for advertising in the airport.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

3 minute read

August 04, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A lawyer's suit against The Webb Law Firm in Pittsburgh alleging that he was misclassified as an independent contractor while he worked there was tossed by a federal judge.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

August 01, 2014 | Law.com

Pennsylvania's bar on strict liability claims for prescription drugs shaved two claims from a woman's case against a mesh manufacturer in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

July 31, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Another law firm representing former NFL players in the litigation over head injuries has asked the federal judge handling the case to make the data underpinning the recently reached settlement available to all of the dozens of lawyers in the case.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

3 minute read