Retired Third Circuit Judge John Gibbons died yesterday.  He was 94 years old. Judge Gibbons was nominated to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals by President Nixon in December 1969 and was confirmed by the Senate twelve days later.  He was a member of that court until he retired from the bench in 1990.  From 1987 to 1990, Judge Gibbons served as Chief Judge. Judge Gibbons was a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Harvard Law School.  After law school, he joined the Newark firm of Crummy & Consodine, which later became Crummy Consodine & Gibbons.  Upon retiring from the...

At his award-winning CA3 Blog, Matthew Stiegler has this post about Judge Vanaskie.  The judge became eligible to take senor status earlier this month, and he will do so effective as of November 30, 2018.  That will create a new vacancy on the Third Circuit.

United States v. Baroni, ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2018).  In a unanimous opinion by Judge Scirica today, the Third Circuit upheld the convictions of “Bridgegate” defendants Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly on charges of conspiracy to obtain by fraud, knowingly convert, or intentionally misapply property of an organization receiving federal benefits, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and the substantive offenses associated with those conspiracy charges.  But the panel reversed and vacated defendants’ convictions for conspiracy against civil rights and the related substantive...