Chief Judge McKee announced today that Judge Sloviter will assume inactive status as a judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She made that decision due to “a serious medical condition with her eyes.” The Chief Judge’s announcement contains ...
S.B. v. Kindercare Learning Centers, LLC, 815 F.3d 150 (3d Cir. 2016). S.B., a four-year old girl, was injured at defendant’s day care center. Her mother sued for negligence, on her own behalf and on behalf of S.B. After the ...
Freidrich v. Davis, 767 F.3d 374 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiff and defendant were both passengers on a plane from Philadelphia to Germany. Plaintiff alleged that, during the flight, defendant, while waiting in line to use the restroom, fell on her and broke ...
Delaware Coalition for Open Government, Inc. v. Strine, 733 F.3d 510 (3d Cir. 2013). It is rare that judges, and a court, are defendants in a lawsuit. It is even more rare that they are the losers in such an ...
Association New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs v. Governor of the State of New Jersey, 707 F.3d 238 (3d Cir. 2013). In this opinion by Judge Sloviter, the Third Circuit deservedly gave the back of its hand to arguments by a gun ...
Einhorn v. M.L. Ruberton Const. Co., 632 F.3d 89 (3d Cir. 2011). When two firms merge, the successor firm may be liable for delinquent ERISA fund contributions of the predecessor. But where one entity buys the assets of another, liability “is not well settled,” ...
Allen v. LaSalle Bank, N.A., 629 F.3d 364 (3d Cir. 2011). Circuit Courts outside the Third Circuit have split on the question of whether a communication from a debt collector to a consumer’s attorney, as opposed to the consumer himself or herself, ...