Saranac Hale Spencer

January 10, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

A whistleblower suit filed against a multibillion-dollar for-profit hospital network has been unsealed in federal court in Philadelphia and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has decided to intervene.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 09, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The family of a man who died in a fiery crash on Interstate 78 has been awarded a verdict of $2.2 million in a nonjury proceeding before a federal judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 08, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

A warrant for the seizure of stolen electronics could also reasonably apply to credit reports that were part of an identity-theft scheme, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 03, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The state attorney general shouldn't be dismissed from a case challenging Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage unless the governor is dismissed from the case also, lawyers for the Corbett administration argued in one of the three state-court cases over the law.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 03, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Third Circuit's year was marked by several rulings on very politically charged issues and saw two of its former chief judges—also very influential judges—take senior status.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

7 minute read

January 02, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Same-sex marriage—an issue that ramped up nationally following a pair of U.S. Supreme Court cases this year—swept into the district courts of Pennsylvania, each of which also changed leadership this year.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

10 minute read

December 27, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A police officer whose service-issued handgun was used by his son to kill the son's estranged girlfriend is entitled to statutory immunity, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

December 23, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Fox Rothschild is merging with San Francisco-based MBV Law, effective Jan. 1, the firm announced Friday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 23, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Another federal judge has certified for interlocutory appeal a question left open by the Third Circuit when it determined that GlaxoSmithKline is a corporate citizen of Delaware

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

December 20, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The pharmaceutical company Allergan is the target of a qui tam case unsealed this week in federal court in Philadelphia.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read