Saranac Hale Spencer

March 08, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Dolores Sloviter, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, is set to take senior status in June, making her the second judge in as many weeks to announce her departure.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

May 18, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The receiver assigned to manage assets left in the wake of a Ponzi scheme may begin to implement her plan to repay defrauded investors, as a federal district judge has overruled the objections of some of those investors.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

May 08, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has joined half a dozen other federal appeals courts in reaffirming a century-old doctrine dictating that a bankruptcy court must first grant leave before a trustee can be sued in another venue.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

June 14, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two of Robert A. Neill's children have filed suit in federal court almost two years after their father, a 61-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, died following multiple releases from a Taser.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

July 19, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Zoloft MDL is going to have to pick up its pace if it's going to usher the way for state courts that are hearing similar cases, the federal judge presiding over the case told a room full of attorneys in federal court in Philadelphia during a status conference Thursday.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

July 12, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Allegations from an electrical workers' union that a contractor that used its members to fulfill contracts with SEPTA and the Delaware River Port Authority wrongly classified the workers in violation of the False Claims Act has survived a motion to dismiss.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 18, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

The week after Adam Lanza went on a shooting spree in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a federal judge in Philadelphia denied immunity to a police officer in a case where his son stole his department-issued gun to kill his estranged girlfriend.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

January 10, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two issues — the division of responsibility for professional negligence and causation — are apparently entwined, Judge Kent Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit observed Tuesday, illustrating his point by twisting his fingers together on the bench after a lawyer had suggested separating those aspects of a case implicating three unrelated lawyers for legal malpractice.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

September 28, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson didn't rule from the bench Thursday, but he did give strong indications that he is planning to enjoin part of Pennsylvania's new voter ID law before November's election.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

6 minute read

July 23, 2013 | Law.com

Whether the state attorney general is able to delegate the defense of Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage to the Office of General Counsel hinges on an interpretation of the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, lawyers familiar with government practice have told Pennsylvania Law Weekly.

By Saranac Hale Spencer and Ben Present

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