Saranac Hale Spencer

April 02, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The surprisingly close confirmation votes for a bipartisan pair of federal judicial nominees were driven by the ongoing partisan battle over the Senate Democratic majority's effective elimination of the filibuster on most judicial nominations, legal and political analysts said.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

March 31, 2014 | Law.com

The Boyertown Area School District could be liable for the 14th Amendment claims brought by a high school student who was sexually assaulted by a teacher who had a history of harassing girls in his classes, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

March 28, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The western Pennsylvania land where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11 can be taken by eminent domain, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

March 27, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Claims that Target copied the design for maternity pants made by Destination Maternity are on hold until the patent office rules on its review of the allegedly infringed patents.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

March 27, 2014 | Law.com

Two nominees for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania were confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday, leaving five empty seats on the bench.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

3 minute read

March 26, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge in Pennsylvania is on track to divvy up the shares to be paid in an Oklahoma state-court settlement—which stemmed from a deadly collision between a train and a car—between Union Pacific Railroad and the company it contracted for clearing vegetation from railroad crossings.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

March 24, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

CertainTeed will pay $104 million to resolve claims that its siding prematurely warped and cracked under a national class settlement agreement granted final approval by a federal judge.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

March 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Yahoo's system for automatically texting its users when their email accounts have received a new message doesn't violate the federal law that protects consumers from unsolicited calls, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

March 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Whether New Jersey was a proper venue to prosecute a case against an Arkansas man who accessed more than 100,000 email addresses from a nonsecure AT&T server became a focal point for the Third Circuit judges hearing arguments on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act case Wednesday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

March 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two expert witnesses, one for a coal-fired power plant and one for the people who allege that it polluted the surrounding area, will be allowed to testify about their air modeling reports, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read