Saranac Hale Spencer

June 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A shortage of judges in the Western District of Pennsylvania has brought the appellate court to the trial bench.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 12, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Police use of Wi-Fi searching technology to find a man who had been downloading child pornography by "mooching" off of a neighbor's Internet connection isn't a Fourth Amendment violation, the Third Circuit has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

10 minute read

June 12, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Police use of Wi-Fi searching technology to find a man who had been downloading child pornography by "mooching" off of a neighbor's Internet connection isn't a Fourth Amendment violation, the Third Circuit has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

10 minute read

June 12, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

An oil and gas industry case was remanded to state court by a federal judge who expressed little admiration for the work of counsel on each side.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

June 10, 2014 | Law.com

A pair of recent international cybercrime cases out of Pittsburgh—one against an organized conspiracy based in Russia and another against a hacking unit of the Chinese military—have been heralded as groundbreaking and likely forecast a focus on that kind of prosecution.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

7 minute read

June 10, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Third Circuit has disagreed with a U.S. district judge on predicting which course the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is likely to follow when interpreting the Pennsylvania Uniform Planned Community Act with regard to bankruptcy.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 09, 2014 | Law.com

Because the IRS couldn't prove that former state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo had taken concrete steps toward sheltering his wealth with family members, a federal judge has tossed a special assessment that the department had levied on him.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

June 09, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Anti-Kickback Statute should be broadly interpreted as a bar to any kind of payment in exchange for health care services paid for by the government, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia argued in a qui tam suit brought against a pharmaceutical company called Allergan.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 09, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A man who took more than a million dollars from two companies for which he was a corporate officer has failed in his bid to get the Third Circuit to amend his nearly six-year sentence.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 06, 2014 | Law.com

Claims against Lancaster County brought by the parents of an infant who was taken from them after a misdiagnosis of shaken baby syndrome have survived in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read