The Senate today voted to confirm Cheryl Krause, a resident of New Jersey, for a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a partner at Dechert’s Philadelphia office, where she specializes in white-collar criminal defense and government investigations. ...
In re Makowka, 754 F.3d 143 (3d Cir. 2014). This opinion by Judge Hardiman, involving as it does an issue of Pennsylvania law with bankruptcy implications, likely would ordinarily be of little interest in New Jersey. But the decision is useful ...
Bryan v. Erie County Office of Children & Youth, 752 F.3d 316 (3d Cir. 2014). A “high-low agreement” is one in which parties agree that, regardless of the outcome of (for example) a trial, the plaintiff will not recover more ...
Matthew Stiegler, an attorney in Pennsylvania, recently began to publish a Third Circuit of Appeals blog. It is available at http://thirdcircuitblog.com. He has already posted some very interesting things, and has been kind enough to cite New Jersey Appellate Law blog in ...
A session with this title was conducted today at the Third Circuit Judicial Conference. Judge Greenaway headlined the panel. But the real driver was a Senior Consultant from Aon Risk Solutions, who posed a series of hypothetical scenarios, prowled the ...
Carrera v. Bayer Corp., 727 F.3d 300 (3d Cir. 2013), severely restricted class certification in cases that involve products of whose purchasers selling defendants do not keep records. That is the case with many consumer goods that are sold at retail, ...
A report from the Center for Public Integrity, issued this morning and available at http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/04/28/14630/federal-judges-plead-guilty, addresses financial conflicts of interest in the United States Courts of Appeal. Both a federal statute and Canon 3C of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges contain ...
Thompson v. Real Estate Mortgage Network, 748 F.3d 142 (3d Cir. 2014). This opinion, issued today by Judge Vanaskie, is an important one in that it clarifies the pleading standards in the context of a motion to dismiss a complaint ...
At today’s seminar sponsored by the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, a panel headlined by Judges Chagares and Shwartz discussed tips for practicing before the Third Circuit. Much of what was said paralleled the advice given at ...
According to a report that can be found here, Judge Aldisert, appointed to the Third Circuit by President Johnson in 1968, will retire in August of this year. He is 94 years old. Judge Aldisert served as Chief Judge of ...