As of December 4, as stated here, New Jersey’s own Judge Chagares became Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. That occurred as a result of the fact ...
In the recent period, the Third Circuit has published a small number of opinions. Here are summaries of some of those decisions: Mallet and Company Inc. v. Lacayo, ___ F.4th ...
Chief Judge Smith announced that he will be stepping down as Chief Judge. He will shortly reach age 70, the age limit for serving as Chief Judge of the Third ...
Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. Secretary, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ___ Fed. Appx. ___ (3d Cir. 2020). This blog does not often cover non-precedential decisions of appellate courts. But ...
United States v. Heinrich, 971 F.3d 160 (3d Cir. 2020). In this appeal, defendant entered a conditional guilty plea to the production of child pornography. He preserved the right, however, ...
Due to a personal matter, there have been no posts on this blog since June 2. This post will summarize some of the decisions from our appellate courts since that ...
Garrett v. Wexford Health, 938 F.3d 69 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal was brought by a prisoner who claimed, as Chief Judge Smith summarized it, that “were deliberately indifferent to ...
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. ...
In re Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, 924 F.3d 662 (3d Cir. 2019). This appeal had an unusual subject: whether certain documents that defendant GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”) had ...
Federal Trade Commission v. Shire Viropharma, Inc., 917 F.3d 147 (3d Cir. 2019). A former President of the United States famously uttered the statement that, in interpreting his testimony under ...