Saranac Hale Spencer

December 06, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Montgomery County clerk who started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples this summer and was ordered to stop by the Superior Court has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to empower him to issue the licenses.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

December 06, 2013 | Law.com

A housekeeper at a hotel in the Poconos who was fired after wearing her hair in cornrows won $25,000 in damages after she brought a racial discrimination case.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 05, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

An accident on I-83 near York, Pa., that sent a car over a Jersey barrier to be hit head-on by a speeding truck has garnered a $3.8 million verdict in federal court for the family of the woman who died that day.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

December 04, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The first case to challenge Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage shouldn't go to the Third Circuit, the plaintiffs responded to the Corbett administration's motion for interlocutory appeal.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 03, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

An international scheme that defrauded a French company of 17 million euros and touched three continents alighted briefly in federal court in Philadelphia.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 03, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A patent case over Christmas lights, plagued by discovery disputes, has ended with severe sanctions for the Chinese company accused of violating two U.S. patents.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

November 27, 2013 | Law.com

The Corbett administration wants the Third Circuit to settle what it sees as an open question of law-the bearing of a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision on challenges to Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

November 26, 2013 | Law.com

Punitive damages are fair game for plaintiffs bringing claims against Novartis Pharmaceuticals for a drug made to manage metastatic bone cancer that they claim caused permanent disfigurement, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

November 26, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Following what the court termed "egregious" discovery violations over the course of two years, a federal judge has granted default judgment to a financial services company.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

November 25, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lorraine Dispaldo, co-defendant of suspended Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Robert Mulgrew, was sentenced today in federal court to 18 months in prison.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

2 minute read