Saranac Hale Spencer

August 20, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

In weighing where the burden of cost should fall for e-discovery in a case that could turn into a class action, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that given the possibility for class certification and the amount of material already produced by the defendant, the scale tips toward the plaintiffs to pay for further discovery, including both electronic and paper files.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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June 21, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal jury in Pittsburgh awarded an $8.1 million verdict for willful infringement of a technology patent earlier this week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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April 24, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyers for a now-defunct medical equipment supplier tried to hurdle a claim to immunity from auditors that contracted with Medicare in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit last week.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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March 28, 2012 | Law.com

A federal judge is allowing a private racketeering claim to proceed against a bank and payment processors involved with telemarketing schemes that are alleged to have fraudulently deducted money from people's bank accounts.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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October 08, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

A week away from the expected end of funding for the federal courts if the government shutdown continues, district courts across Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit are taking different approaches to planning.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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July 26, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

The key question in the case challenging Pennsylvania's voter ID law is what level of scrutiny the court will apply, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson said at the start of hearings Wednesday.

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December 14, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

After nearly 30 years, the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is untethered from the Turkish gun maker it represented in the 1980s.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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April 03, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Eleven insurance companies may be obligated to cover the 33,000 asbestos-related conditional settlements between General Refractories Co. and its former workers, a federal judge ruled last week.

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December 20, 2012 | Law.com

Three plaintiffs will be allowed to proceed anonymously in their suit against a Western Pennsylvania school district that maintains a monument to the Ten Commandments in front of a public high school, a federal judge ruled.

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October 11, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Twenty years after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit sat en banc for a case hinging on a school's obligation to protect its students under the 14th Amendment, an en banc panel of the same court asked lawyers in a similar case what had changed over the last two decades.

By Saranac Hale Spencer

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