Papera v. Pennsylvania Quarried Bluestone Co., ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2020). Plaintiffs and defendants reached what was believed to be a settlement of their case. At plaintiffs’ request, the District Court entered a dismissal order. That order said that he case was dismissed and gave the parties 60 days to provide a settlement agreement for court approval or move to reopen the case. A minute entry, though not the order, stated that the dismissal was “without prejudice.” When the parties neither submitted a settlement agreement nor moved to reopen, the District Court closed...

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...

Quinteros v. Attorney General of the United States of America, ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2019). This was an immigration appeal. As Judge Roth summarized it in her opinion for the Third Circuit (the other panel members were Judges McKee and Ambro) today, “The Board of Immigration Appeals found that Nelson Quinteros committed an aggravated felony and failed to show entitlement to relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Quinteros argues that the Board committed two errors: First, the Board erred in finding that his conviction for conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon...