In an order entered yesterday and issued per curiam, on behalf of the entire Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Judge McKee directed that “a three-judge Standing Motions Panel is hereby appointed to rule on all motions to exceed the page/word ...
In October, President Obama nominated Judge Shwartz to a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Senator Lautenberg promptly hailed that nomination. Senator Menendez did not. Today, major newspapers are reporting what some in the legal community have been ...
Last week’s decision in the Diamond Antitrust case, where an en banc Third Circuit undid a 2-1 panel decision in which a district judge, sitting by designation, was one of the members of the majority, raises the question of what authority there is ...
Sullivan v. DB Investments, Inc., 667 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 2011). By a 7-2 vote, the Third Circuit, sitting en banc, disagreed with a panel decision (613 F.3d 134 (3d Cir. 2010)), vacated by the grant of en banc review) that had voided approval ...
US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, 663 F.3d 671 (3d Cir. 2011). After defendant McCutchen suffered a serious auto accident, a benefit plan administered by plaintiff US Airways paid him nearly $67,000 for his medical expenses. When McCutchen recovered a larger sum than that ...
The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts has issued his Annual Report, entitled “Judicial Business of the United States Courts.” The report, available here, is over 400 pages long and includes information about the courts of appeal, ...
Santos-Reyes v. United States, 660 F.3d 196 (3d Cir. 2011). Under 8 U.S.C. §1229b(a), an alien who could otherwise be deported from the United States can have the deportation cancelled if the alien “has resided in the United States continuously for 7 ...
Delalla v. Hanover Insurance, 660 F.3d 180 (3d Cir. 2011). The federal removal statute, 28 U.S.C. §1446(b), obligates a defendant who wishes to remove to federal court a case filed in state court to file removal papers within 30 days of the ...
President Obama has nominated Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She would fill the “New Jersey seat” that was created when Judge Barry took senior status in June of this year. A native of Paterson, ...
Lewis v. Guadagno, 445 Fed. Appx. 599 (3d Cir. 2011). Mere days after a panel of the Third Circuit voted 2-1 in favor of Carl Lewis’s bid to be on the ballot for the upcoming State Senate election, the same panel unanimously ...