Saranac Hale Spencer

November 25, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The first legal challenge to Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage is set for trial in June after a decision at a case-management conference by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

November 22, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has pushed back a trial over a 2005 plane crash from this December to March of next year because of the complexity of the interfacing state and federal law in the case.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 21, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge closed the door to the possibility of a statewide women's wrestling league when he denied the Pennsylvania Wrestling Club's bid to intervene in a civil rights action filed by a junior high student who is barred from joining her school's all-boys wrestling team.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 20, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Luxury house builder Bruce Toll has lost his suit against his former son-in-law over a multimillion-dollar business deal.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 19, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyers in the Zoloft MDL are hoping to have a verdict by Thanksgiving 2014, Dianne Nast, who is on the plaintiffs' steering committee, told the judge at a status conference this week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 18, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The first challenge to Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage appears headed to trial now that it has survived motions to dismiss.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 15, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

A transgender engineer lost her appeal to the Third Circuit in a case alleging that her former employer's discrimination culminated in her 2008 firing from the job.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 15, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has sentenced a woman convicted of bank and loan fraud to 10 days in prison, a variance from the federal sentencing guidelines' recommendation of five years.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 14, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection this spring of the class certification for a group of two million subscribers suing Comcast over allegedly anticompetitive behavior, the federal trial judge in Philadelphia has decided that the plaintiffs can now seek certification of a narrower class.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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November 13, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The political corruption that saturated the century between 1850 and 1950 has receded and a reform that was prompted by it—the provision in Philadelphia's Home Rule Charter barring police officers from making political contributions—now violates the constitutional right to free speech, the police union's lawyer told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday morning.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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