Saranac Hale Spencer

June 03, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal magistrate judge in Pittsburgh has imposed sanctions on a commercial defendant after a fruitless settlement negotiation.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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June 03, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

After having once revived a qui tam suit brought against a Pennsylvania engineering firm, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has now agreed with the trial court's decision to grant summary judgment to the firm.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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June 02, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Whether the catastrophic failure of a glass manufacturer's furnace was "sudden and accidental" was again before a federal district judge, after it had already been up to the Third Circuit once before.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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May 30, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Head injuries might be an expected part of playing football, but that doesn't overcome the duty of care that the NCAA owed to student athletes, a federal magistrate judge has decided.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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May 29, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Evidence police collected from a GPS device they attached to a suspect's vehicle without a warrant should be admissable because the officers relied in good faith on legal precedent at the time, the U.S. Attorney's Office argued in front of an en banc panel of the Third Circuit on Wednesday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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May 28, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal magistrate judge has ordered a Swarthmore, Pa., lawyer to pay the costs associated with seeking sanctions against him.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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May 23, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Claims made by 26 members of the Occupy Philadelphia movement against the city police officers who arrested them have survived, almost completely intact, in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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May 22, 2014 | Law.com

Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday decided not to appeal the decision of a federal judge who struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

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7 minute read

May 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania joined a dozen other federal courts over the last year in tossing the restriction of marriage to only opposite-sex couples.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

May 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Since an industry research organization may have unintentionally been a conduit for communicating information among conspirators in a price-fixing scheme among major manufacturers of drywall, plaintiffs in the related multidistrict litigation can collect some of the organization's confidential information, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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