Even as the Appellate Division wound down the number of its published opinions in the second half of August, the Third Circuit seemed to rev up its publication of opinions. From August 14 through August 29, the court published thirteen opinions. Here are summaries of some of them (for full coverage of all of the court’s activities, check out Matthew Stiegler’s CA3blog): Golden v. New Jersey Institute of Technology, ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. 2019). This opinion by Chief Judge Smith involved an attorneys’ fee issue under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A....

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United States v. Reese, 917 F.3d 177 (3d Cir. 2019).  The Third Circuit issued this opinion today.  As Judge Ambro’s opinion for the unanimous panel stated at the very beginning, “This is one of the rare cases in which the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. §§3161–3174, requires that we vacate a conviction and remand for dismissal of the indictment.” But Judges Ambro and Greenaway filed a separate concurring opinion.  They wrote that opinion “to address a trend among our sister Circuits that appears to be expanding the doctrine of waiver by defendants under the Speedy Trial...