Reinig v. RBS Citizens, N.A., 912 F.3d 115 (3d Cir. 2018). This was the final published opinion of 2018 for the Third Circuit. Authored by Judge Vanaskie, the opinion reverses an order that granted class certification under Federal Rule of ...
As stated in a notice on the Third Circuit’s website, that court “is open during the Government Shutdown. Oral arguments will be heard as scheduled. All filing deadlines must be met. CM/ECF will remain operational.” The notice goes on to ...
At his award-winning CA3 Blog, Matthew Stiegler has this post about Judge Vanaskie. The judge became eligible to take senor status earlier this month, and he will do so effective as of November 30, 2018. That will create a new ...
MacDonald v. Cashcall, Inc., 883 F.3d 220 (3d Cir. 2018). There have been some outlandish circumstances in decisions involving arbitration, especially in the class action context. But today’s case, a putative class action in which Judge Shwartz wrote a wise ...
Ramirez v. Vintage Pharmaceuticals, LLC, 852 F.3d 324 (3d Cir. 2017). The so-called Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”) extended federal jurisdiction not only to class actions over which federal courts previously did not have power, but also to ...
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 ...
Heffernan v. City of Paterson, 777 F.3d 147 (3d Cir. 2015). [Disclosure: Victor A. Afanador and Susana Cruz Hodge, my colleagues at Lite DePalma Greenberg, LLC, represented the successful appellees in this case] Jeffrey Heffernan was a police officer in ...
Flintkote Company v. Aviva PLC, 769 F.3d 215 (3d Cir. 2014). Efforts to force arbitration on parties who did not agree to it continue. In this case, however, the Third Circuit, speaking through Judge Vanaskie, refused to allow that. Plaintiff ...
Thompson v. Real Estate Mortgage Network, 748 F.3d 142 (3d Cir. 2014). This opinion, issued today by Judge Vanaskie, is an important one in that it clarifies the pleading standards in the context of a motion to dismiss a complaint ...
Wiest v. Lynch, 701 F.3d 121 (3d Cir. 2013). This is a very interesting case brought under the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. §1514A, and Pennsylvania law. The Third Circuit, voting 2-1, reversed in part a summary that had been ...