Mammaro v. New Jersey Div. of Child Protection & Permanency, 814 F.3d 164 (3d Cir. 2016). In this case, plaintiff brought a civil rights case against the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency (“the Division”), supervisors and case ...
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 ...
Hassan v. City of New York, 804 F.3d 277 (3d Cir. 2015). This opinion by Judge Ambro yesterday is one of the most important decisions that the Third Circuit has made in some time. The case involves New York City ...
In re Revel AC, Inc., 802 F.3d 558 (3d Cir. 2015). “We seldom focus on how to balance the four factors that determine whether to grant a stay pending appeal despite the practical and legal importance of these procedural standstills. ...
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 ...
In re Tribune Media Company, 799 F.3d 272 (3d Cir. 2015). Roughly one month ago, Judge Krause authored a powerful concurring opinion in In re One2One Communications, LLC, 805 F.3d 428 (3d Cir. 2015), that criticized the bankruptcy doctrine of ...
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 ...
Cottillion v. United Refining Co., 781 F.3d 47 (3d Cir. 2015). This opinion by Judge Ambro, issued today, affirmed a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs and a class in an Employment Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) case. This post, ...
In re National Football League Players Concussion Injury Litigation, 775 F.3d 570 (3d Cir. 2014). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) states that “[a] court of appeals may permit an appeal from an order granting or denying class-action certification” upon ...
Dwyer v. Cappell, 762 F.3d 275 (3d Cir. 2014). Andrew Dwyer is a lawyer who handles plaintiffs’ employment law litigation. Evidently, some judges have said favorable things about him in opinions that awarded him fees under the New Jersey Law ...