Saranac Hale Spencer

May 02, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Viviette Applewhite, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights in Georgia, is the lead plaintiff in a suit against the state of Pennsylvania since its recently enacted voter ID law will keep her from voting in November, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

April 02, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A lawyer who hasn't been paid, and has no prospect of getting paid, can withdraw from a case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled last week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

May 16, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Less is more. That was the premise under which the committee recommending changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure operated, said U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, who sits on that advisory committee. And that approach applies with particular force to discovery practice.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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August 22, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Antitrust claims brought by a company that maintains a system for locating cellphones that have dialed 911 survived a motion to dismiss from several cellphone companies that favor a competing system.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

August 29, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A nationwide group of pharmacies failed in its bid to stop the merger of two of the country's largest pharmaceutical benefits management companies — Medco Health Solutions and Express Scripts — with the ruling of a federal judge in Pittsburgh, who dismissed all of its antitrust claims save one regarding the sale of certain specialty drugs.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

May 22, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge has predicted that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would hold that a waiver of underinsured motorist benefits carries forward to vehicles added to an existing policy.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

October 23, 2012 | Law.com

A federal judge has thrown out several claims against the makers of Prevacid, a heartburn drug, but allowed several others, including one on a theory of manufacturing defect, that allege the product weakened a patient's bones to the point of fracture, to survive.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

4 minute read

May 06, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A default judgment entered against a corporation that owes more than $400,000 to its former law firm still stands, a federal judge has ruled.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

April 04, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Without explanation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has quietly reassigned the judge overseeing high-profile antitrust litigation in Pittsburgh.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

5 minute read

May 28, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr.'s challenge to his 28-year sentence for his involvement in the "kids-for-cash" scandal has been rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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