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; ...
I have posted before about the relatively low percentage of Third Circuit appeals in which oral argument is heard. The latest statistics show that little has changed in this regard. Matthew Stiegler has a detailed post about this at his ...
Hanover 3201 Realty, LLC v. Village Supermarkets, Inc., 806 F.3d 162 (3d Cir. 2015). The number of different issues that judicial opinions present never ceases to amaze. This appeal, which involved questions of antitrust standing and Noerr-Pennington immunity, presented what ...
Lincoln Benefit Life Co. v. AEI Life, LLC, 800 F.3d 99 (3d Cir. 2015). For a single judge on a three-judge Third Circuit panel to issue a concurring opinion is not unusual, as in this recent example. Occasionally, two out ...
National Ass’n for the Advancement of Multijurisdiction Practice (NAAMP) v. Castille, 799 F.3d 216 (3d Cir. 2015). For many years, New Jersey has not offered “reciprocity” to allow attorneys licensed in other jurisdictions to become members of the New Jersey ...
National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n v. Governor of the State of New Jersey, 799 F.3d 259 (3d Cir. 2015). In 2012, in an effort to aid Atlantic City, New Jersey passed the Sports Wagering Act, N.J.S.A. 5:12A-1 et seq. That law ...
McMaster v. Eastern Armored Services, Inc., 780 F.3d 167 (3d Cir. 2015). Plaintiff Ashley McMaster was a driver and/or guard (some days she drove, and other days she rode as a passenger to provide security) employed by defendant (“Eastern”), an armored ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sutter v. Oxford Health Plans, LLC, 675 F.3d 215 (3d Cir. 2012). Decisions in favor of class arbitration may seem to be few and far between these days. But in this case, an arbitrator and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals came ...