Saranac Hale Spencer

May 07, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Discontent among some former football players with the proposed $765 million settlement in the case against the NFL for players' head injuries has been most recently expressed in a motion to intervene

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

May 06, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The parent company to a long-defunct railcar manufacturer is neither directly nor derivatively liable for toxic waste left on the grounds of its old manufacturing plant, a federal judge in Pittsburgh has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

May 05, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A global insurance company is bound by a contract between its new hire and a Philadelphia-based direct competitor for which she used to work, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

May 02, 2014 | Law.com

PepsiCo's claims of fraud against a Pennsylvania company—brought after discovery got under way in a $9 million breach of contract case the company had initially filed against PepsiCo—have survived a motion to dismiss in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

May 01, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A cardiologist who was convicted of mail and wire fraud for his submission of faulty reports on behalf of claimants to the Fen-Phen settlement trust could shave a year off of his sentence, the Third Circuit has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

May 01, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A report created for a medical device manufacturer that was inadvertently handed over during discovery can't be used by the plaintiff, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

April 30, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The RICO case brought by Aluminium Bahrain against Victor Dahdaleh, alleging that he conspired with Pittsburgh-based Alcoa to inflate the cost of raw materials required to make aluminum, must go to arbitration in London, a federal judge in Pittsburgh has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

April 29, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A report created for a medical device manufacturer that was inadvertently handed over during discovery can't be used by the plaintiff, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

2 minute read

April 29, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Three out-of-state men who downloaded child pornography made by a Pittsburgh-area man who raped his adopted daughter at Disney World were dismissed from a civil suit brought by the victim under a federal law passed in her name.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

April 28, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recent statutory changes have opened the door for a modest increase in qui tam actions over the last several years, a development that coincides with an increase in big-dollar recoveries.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read