Saranac Hale Spencer

March 10, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

McNeil Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, might have manufactured allegedly defective batches of children's Tylenol in Pennsylvania, but it's a New Jersey company, a federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled, preserving the diversity jurisdiction to keep the case in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 10, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has reinstated his original award of attorney fees in a case that was remanded to him from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for further inspection of the fee award.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 06, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit appears to be the first court to rule definitively that local jails aren't required to hold people on detainers issued by the federal immigration agency ICE.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 05, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

More than 75 people who got cancer and allege that it is a result of breathing the radioactive uranium released from a nuclear processing facility in western Pennsylvania have won back the right to present four expert witnesses at trial in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 04, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The challengers to Pennsylvania's law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls who prevailed in permanently enjoining the law in January have answered the state's post-trial motion seeking to revive the law.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 04, 2014 | Law.com

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the city of Hazleton, Pa., in its bid to save its laws restricting rental housing for illegal immigrants that were struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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February 28, 2014 | Law.com

The makers of three-quarters of America's chocolate—Hershey, Mars and Nestle—got a federal judge in Harrisburg, Pa., to toss 91 cases claiming that the companies fixed prices between 2002 and 2007.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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February 27, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A Pennsylvania state law that bars political committees from taking contributions from corporations or organizations, like labor unions, for political purposes is directly at odds with Citizens United, a Washington, D.C.-based "super PAC" argued in its challenge to the measure.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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February 25, 2014 | Law.com

The Higher Education Act doesn't exempt Temple University from following the terms of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in the way it reports student loan debt information, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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February 24, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical company Endo Health Solutions has agreed to pay $193 million to settle claims that it engaged in illegal off-label marketing of its pain relief medication, Lidoderm.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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