Saranac Hale Spencer

June 25, 2014 | Law.com

Four "pay-for-delay" agreements that Cephalon entered into with separate generic drug manufacturers eight years ago don't establish a conspiracy among the companies, a federal judge has ruled.
In the agreements, Cephalon paid a "substantial amount of money" to the generic companies, U.S. District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said, and the companies agreed to enter the market for a lucrative narcolepsy drug in April 2012.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 24, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A sign sitting on land owned by the borough of Shickshinny, Pa., that points to a Baptist church with a gold cross and white bible can be challenged as a violation of the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled, vacating the district court's decision.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 23, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A suburban Pittsburgh Catholic diocese has gotten a preliminary injunction from the contraceptive mandate of Obamacare.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

June 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Relators who brought a multibillion-dollar case against a major for-profit education company can't be cut from the suit, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The logistics of getting a strip club's bus out of a Philadelphia Parking Authority lot in 2010 was the primary topic of conversation on tapes played to the jury in the trial of several Philadelphia Traffic Court judges accused of ticket-fixing Wednesday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

June 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The parameters of the true-threat exception to freedom of speech could be formed on a case from the Third Circuit since the U.S. Supreme Court took up a case over posts made on Facebook in Berks County.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 17, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Nevada law applied to a case in federal court in Philadelphia has preserved the wrongful-death claim made by the parents of an infant who died after taking Tylenol.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 17, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The four district court nominees slated for the federal bench in Philadelphia are the most recent in a flood that have been moving increasingly quickly through the Senate.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

June 17, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Nevada law applied to a case in federal court in Philadelphia has preserved the wrongful-death claim made by the parents of an infant who died after taking Tylenol.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 16, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Four nominees to judgeships on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania court came from the White House on Friday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

2 minute read