Today is a court holiday for New Jersey state and federal courts. That affords an opportunity to catch up with this week’s published opinions from the Supreme Court,, the Appellate Division, and the Third Circuit. Here are summaries of those ...
At this time of the year, our Supreme Court and Appellate Division go relatively quiet. But the Third Circuit often reaches a peak. Today, for example, that court issued five published opinions. Here are summaries: Association of New Jersey Rifle ...
Stephanos Bibas is a Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and has other degrees from Columbia and Oxford. Following his graduation from law school, Professor Bibas ...
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 ...
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 ...
Regular readers of this blog have seen frequent criticism of the class action “ascertainability” doctrine espoused by Carrera v. Bayer Corp., 727 F.3d 300 (3d Cir. 2013). Recently, as discussed here, the Appellate Division in Daniels v. Hollister Co., 440 ...
Grandalski v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., 767 F.3d 175 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiffs filed a putative class action in which they alleged that defendant, a company that performs medical lab tests, had overbilled patients in violation of state consumer protection laws. ...
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 ...