May 12, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday rejected the Pennsylvania State Police's bid to completely avoid a subpoena from a skill games company suing Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC for an alleged conflict of interest, but noted that the department raised legitimate concerns about the subpoena's scope.
July 03, 2024
Parx Casino can't get a Pennsylvania federal court to reconsider its orders to turn over most of its disputed communications with Eckert Seamans in a lawsuit over whether the law firm put the casino operator's interests ahead of another client that makes gaming machines, the court ruled Wednesday.
May 10, 2024
Gaming-machine maker Pace-O-Matic Inc. cannot access most of the 182 documents competitor Parx Casino hoped to shield amid Pace-O-Matic's breach of contract suit against its former Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC counsel, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled after conducting a Third Circuit-ordered, in-camera review of the files.
June 13, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge has tossed an abuse of process claim in a gaming machine company's lawsuit accusing Eckert Seamans of working against it by representing one of its competitors, but the firm's luck did not extend to the rest of the claims, which the judge allowed to move forward.
April 04, 2023
Pace-O-Matic Inc. claims that the Third Circuit does not have jurisdiction in the gaming machine company's suit accusing a law firm of improperly representing both it and a casino operator, saying the appellate court can't consider a judge's refusal to apply attorney-client privilege to documents.
February 16, 2023
A Pennsylvania casino operator asked the Third Circuit on Thursday to reverse a judge's order allowing the disclosure of its communications with its attorneys at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC and Hawke McKeon & Sniscak LLP.
July 21, 2022
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday gave Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC a reprieve from producing documents it claims are privileged in a case in which it's accused of working against a gaming company client's interests by also representing a competitor.
April 01, 2022
A federal court trimmed fraud claims from a gaming company's lawsuit accusing its former lawyers at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC of hiding a conflict of interest, but it gave the plaintiff an opportunity to revise the suit.
September 27, 2021
A Georgia-based game machine maker has urged a Pennsylvania federal court to deny a partial motion to dismiss its amended complaint against its onetime law firm, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC, which it accuses of breaching a fiduciary duty by working both for and against the company in different jurisdictions.
April 26, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge wouldn't accept a "pinky promise" from Eckert Seamans that it has stopped representing a casino against a former client who manufactures games, so the law firm must face the game maker's motion for a preliminary injunction.