Third Circuit Court of Appeals News

Just short of two years after he was sentenced to home confinement and community service, and weeks from completing his term of probation on wire and mail fraud charges, businessman Adam J. Levinson on Tuesday ...

The U.S. solicitor general is urging the Supreme Court to review a 2008 federal appeals court decision that invalidated a federal law banning videos depicting animal cruelty.

One of the most significant assignments that the Constitution delegates to the president is the appointment of federal judges.

New Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Brent Yager took office Friday afternoon, begins his term Monday and is ready to hit the ground running, he said, replacing the remaining five assistant prosecuting ...

Available online from law.com: Shannon P. Duffy of The Legal Intelligencer reports that " 3rd Circuit Slashes Punitives, Imposes 1-1 Ratio ." You can access at this link last week's non-precedential ruling of a ...

While restrictions on freedom of speech and other First Amendment rights once again abounded on America's campuses in 2008, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education enlisted more students and faculty ...

Jewish organizations are gearing up for a new round in an ongoing court battle over a ban on religious music performances in the South Orange-Maplewood schools.

In a ruling that is sure to be required reading for antitrust lawyers, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a lower court's decision to certify a class action over an alleged price-fixing ...

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC attorneys Steven E. Bizar, Howard D. Scher, Thomas P. Manning and Landon Y. Jones today obtained a significant victory for clients Arkema Inc.

Slashing a $6.25 million punitive damages award down to $2 million, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that in most cases where the plaintiff wins a "substantial" compensatory award and the damages ...

A church group that owns beachfront property discriminated against a lesbian couple by not allowing them to rent the locale for their civil union ceremony, a New Jersey department ruled Monday in a case that ...

In November, a last-ditch effort to slide "cost-of-living" salary increases for federal judges into the auto bailout legislation failed in Congress.

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today announced the following judicial appointments: Court of Appeals, 1st District Cynthia Stephens of Detroit , current judge of the 3rd Circuit Court, is appointed as judge of ...

An arbitration clause in a commercial contract expires when the contract does and cannot be enforced merely because the parties continue to do business under the same terms, a federal judge has ruled.

Fresh off her convincing victory in the 2008 WOPOTY poll , it looks like U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan plans to continue with her prosecution of Pennsylvania medical examiner Cyril Wecht.

Timothy Moore had filed a second appeal with the 3rd District Court of Appeals on grounds his trial attorney did not do a good enough job.

Jacob Gunvalson is a 17-year-old boy with a terminal genetic disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but he was not allowed to participate in a drug company's trial of an experimental drug that holds some ...

The city will appeal a federal judge's decision not to dismiss Carin Sollman's civil rights lawsuit against the city for the accidental shooting death of her husband.

Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh want the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a conviction against a Virginia man who was the first person prosecuted under a 1999 law banning the sale of images of animal cruelty.

The Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an animal cruelty case, arguing that an appeals court erred in declaring unconstitutional a federal law that bans selling depictions of ...