Stephen A. Fogdall

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Appellate Practice: Argued appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the D.C. Circuit, the Delaware Supreme Court
  Pennsylvania appellate courts.
  Represented a national heavy truck manufacturer in an appeal involving crashworthiness claims in Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
  Represented a major chemical company in appeal in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania involving whether Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation claims may be pursued as a class action.
  Represented a public policy organization in amicus capacity urging the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to adopt the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Product Liability.
  Financial Services Litigation : Represented a private mortgage insurer in dispute with a master servicer over the cancellation of coverage on securitized mortgage loans.
  Represented a private mortgage insurer in federal court in the District of Columbia in defense of securities fraud claims involving accounting treatment of reinsurance contracts. The claims against the private mortgage insurer were dismissed for failure to state a claim.
  Represented a holder of defaulted public development bonds in a dispute over allocation of proceeds under conflicting waterfall provisions.
  Represented a national bank in defense of claims involving alleged mismanagement of custodial accounts.
  Represented a national bank in defense of claims of alleged discriminatory lending in federal court in Delaware
  in the Third Circuit. Discrimination claims were rejected on summary judgment, in a decision that defined elements of a prima facie case of lending discrimination in the Third Circuit.
  Class Action Defense: Defended a major chemical company in federal mass tort litigation seeking medical monitoring based on allegations of chemical exposure
  Represented a major metropolitan school district in opposing class certification of educational disability claims in federal court.