To start the new year, the Third Circuit announced that beginning on January 1, 2020, “docket entries listed on the Court’s docket will be numbered. All cases opened in 2020 will have consecutive numbers assigned to each entry.” Cases opened before January 1, 2020, of which the Third Circuit said there are about 2,800, will have “mixed” dockets, “containing both numbered and unnumbered entries.” That is because “[d]ocket entry numbers cannot be assigned to entries made prior to January 1, 2020 due to coding issues within the program. Entries made...

The Third Circuit has scheduled the next Third Judicial Conference for May 13-15, 2020 at the Penn’s Landing Hilton in Philadelphia. As discussed here, the Court had previously announced a Spring 2020 Judicial Conference in Philadelphia, but now actual dates and location have been set. This Judicial Conference will be open to attorneys, the first such Judicial Conference to be a “Bench-Bar” since 2017. The Third Circuit had been opening its Judicial Conferences to attorneys every other year for a period of time, but has now reverted to its previous practice of doing so...

Most Appellate Division oral arguments occur in Trenton, Newark, Morristown, and Hackensack, though in recent years, panels have been sitting regularly in places such as Jersey City, New Brunswick, and Toms River. Periodically, however, the Appellate Division goes on tour to other locations, in order to allow the public in different parts of New Jersey easier access to oral arguments in person. As stated here, on October 22, the Appellate Division will be sitting in the Old Gloucester County Courthouse in Woodbury, making use of the distinguished ceremonial courtroom there. The hearing panel...