Judge Leonard I. Garth died last week at age 95. Born in Brooklyn on April 27, 1921, he went to college at Columbia and got his law degree at Harvard. In between, he served as a lieutenant in the United ...
Chief Judge McKee has announced the formation of a Task Force on Eyewitness Identifications. This seventeen-member body will be co-chaired by Chief Judge McKee and Judge Mitchell Goldberg of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and ...
Chassen v. Fidelity Nat’l Financial, Inc., 836 F.3d 291 (3d Cir. 2016). [Disclosure: I was an expert witness for plaintiffs in this case, but my Declaration and deposition testimony was not the subject of, or referred to in, this opinion]. ...
North Jersey Media Group Inc. v. United States, 836 F.3d 421 (3d Cir. 2016). The 2013 closure of lanes at the George Washington Bridge, which led to extraordinary traffic backups in Fort Lee, has taken on the label of “Bridgegate” ...
Chavez v. Dole Food Co., 836 F.3d 205 (3d Cir. 2016). In the classic Charles Dickens book “Bleak House,” the legal case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce ran for so many years that “[i]nnumerable children have been born into the cause; ...
In re Comcast Corp. Set-Top Cable Television Box Antitrust Litig., 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 16135 (3d Cir. Aug. 31, 2016). It is not often that the Third Circuit summarily reverses a decision in a class action case. This brief opinion ...
DePolo v. Tredyffrin Tp. Bd. of Supervisors, 835 F.3d 381 (3d Cir. 2016). Jeffrey DePolo is a ham radio enthusiast in Pennsylvania. He applied to defendant Zoning Hearing Board of Appeals (“ZHBA”) for a variance that would allow him to ...
Rosenberg v. DVI Receivables XVII, LLC, 835 F.3d 414 (3d Cir. 2016). As Judge Ambro noted in his opinion in this case today, an involuntary bankruptcy is one that is commenced by creditors, essentially forcing a debtor into bankruptcy proceedings. ...
Raab v. City of Ocean City, 833 F.3d 286 (3d Cir. 2016). In this case under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §1983, both plaintiff and the defendant municipality claimed to be the “prevailing party” and therefore sought an award ...
Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. New Kensington Arnold School District, 832 F.3d 469 (3d Cir. 2016). Federal standing law sometimes involves nuances inquiries comparable to the famous question of how many angels can dance on the head of a ...