Saranac Hale Spencer

January 24, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

As district judges in Pennsylvania are splitting over whether or not GlaxoSmithKline can remove cases brought over its drug Paxil to federal court, a judge in the Eastern District has transferred one of those cases to the Southern District of Texas.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court decision to strike down Pennsylvania's law requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls makes the law significantly harder to defend on appeal, state Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office said Tuesday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 21, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls is unconstitutional, a state court judge has ruled in striking down the controversial measure.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 17, 2014 | Law.com

Both Gov. Tom Corbett and state Attorney General Kathleen Kane have been let out of a case challenging Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage, under a ruling announced by Commonwealth Court President Judge Dan Pellegrini from the bench Thursday morning.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 16, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A junior high school girl who was barred from joining a scholastic boys' wrestling team has won a preliminary injunction against her Harrisburg, Pa.-area school district in federal court.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 15, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal judge handling the NFL concussion case has denied preliminary approval of the $760 million settlement agreed to by the league and its former players.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

January 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal judge handling the NFL concussion case has denied preliminary approval of the $760 million settlement agreed to by the league and its former players.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

2 minute read

January 14, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pennsylvania's "mini-DOMA" has the same discriminatory purpose and effect as the federal Defense of Marriage Act on which it was based, plaintiffs in one of the challenges to the state's ban on same-sex marriage argued in their opposition to the Corbett administration's objections to their suit.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge in Philadelphia has preserved the attorney-client privilege for a pharmaceutical company that had been found to have defrauded the patent office.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

January 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Minor changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect last month, but the debate over the major changes slated for December 2015 is still under way and dividing the bar.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read