Saranac Hale Spencer

February 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has revived almost all parts of Pennsylvania's Funeral Director Law that had been struck down as unconstitutional by a district court two years ago.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

February 20, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Most of the claims brought by a man whose penile implant broke two years after it was put in were preempted by U.S. law governing medical devices, a federal judge has ruled, dismissing those claims with prejudice.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

February 19, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

An oil and gas company, Exco Resources, has won summary judgment in a case brought by landowners seeking to have its lease of 130 acres in Northwest Pennsylvania declared invalid.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

February 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Montgomery County's recorder of deeds has won class status for all of the 67 recorders of deeds across Pennsylvania in a suit she filed against Merscorp for its alleged failure to file mortgage assignments with the county offices.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

February 18, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Photographs of an accident reenactment prepared by Predator Trucking LLC and an insurance adjuster's report were each prepared for litigation and are protected from discovery under the work-product exception, U.S. District Judge Sylvia Rambo of the Middle District of Pennsylvania has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

February 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Four years after the lead singer of the band Fishbone cracked the skull of a concertgoer with a stage dive, a federal judge has entered a judgment of $1.4 million against members of the band.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

February 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The government-run clinic that provided prenatal care for a mother who gave birth while she unknowingly carried streptococcus B has secured summary judgment extinguishing most of the claims brought against it.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

February 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has given its OK under the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege to a trial court's in camera interview of a lawyer about advice provided to an ex-client as well as its subsequent decision that it meets the exception so that a grand jury could hear the testimony.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

February 11, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has rejected an injunction sought by officials of five states that would have forced Allegheny Energy Inc. to secure new permits required under the Clean Air Act for modifications to three coal-fired energy plants.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

February 07, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has created a potential split with the Eleventh Circuit by deciding that the federal Department of Labor can lawfully advise another agency on the minimum wage that must be paid to noncitizen workers.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read