Saranac Hale Spencer

July 25, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Within five months of securing a charter from the Pennsylvania Department of Education for the Agora Cyber Charter School, Dr. Dorothy June Brown and a second person created The Cynwyd Group in order to defraud the school of more than $5 million over the course of two years, a federal indictment filed yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleges.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

December 04, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A mother was entitled to take time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act in order to make day care arrangements for her autistic child, a federal judge held in an opinion issued the same day as the case was closed after settling.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 25, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has dismissed two of three counts against Aetna Life Insurance Co. in a suit where the plaintiff is seeking to recover life insurance benefits she said she is owed under ERISA.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

September 24, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The 12 members of the jury who are scheduled to hear the capital case of the alleged North Philadelphia gang leader Kaboni Savage shall serve anonymously, but they won't be fully sequestered, a federal judge ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

August 02, 2012 | Law.com

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a ruling that dismissed the whistleblower claims brought by Rodney Repko against Guthrie Healthcare System, where he once served as general counsel.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

October 21, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Youths who were locked up in the Luzerne County "kids-for-cash" scandal have filed a joint proposal for a $2.5 million settlement with the facilities in which they were sentenced to serve time.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

March 14, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Assuming that the Third Circuit wouldn't take an interlocutory appeal from Ford, which is arguing for the application of the Restatement (Third) of Torts in a case headed for trial next month, U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania denied the car company's motion for a stay.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

February 28, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Taking the view that hospital security guards are less akin to health-care workers than they are to security workers, a federal judge granted conditional class certification to guards at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for claims that CHOP violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

October 05, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Of the hundreds of file-sharing suits brought by producers of pornographic movies against groups of John Does across the country, the first to go to trial might be in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

October 17, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

State Senator Jake Corman, R-Centre, can't intervene in litigation between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Corbett administration over sanctions leveled against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

3 minute read