2024 Third Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Date: May 3, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3027
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a shareholder derivative action against Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation and its board of directors. The plaintiffs, shareholders of Cognizant, alleged that the directors breached their…
Date: May 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3026
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to implement a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) to regulate emissions in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had initially…
Date: May 2, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1031
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Qing Qin, a Chinese software architect who alleges that he was denied a promotion and wrongfully terminated from his position at Vertex, Inc. based on his race and national origin. He also claims that…
Date: May 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1866
Justia Opinion Summary: Paul Montemuro was elected as the President of the Jim Thorpe Area School Board. However, a week later, the Board elected someone else without giving Montemuro any prior notice. Montemuro sued the Board members who voted…
Date: April 26, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2283
Justia Opinion Summary: A motor vehicle manufacturer, General Motors LLC (GM), sought to terminate its franchise agreement with Mall Chevrolet, Inc., a successful car dealership in New Jersey, after discovering that the dealership had submitted…
Date: April 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1096
Date: April 25, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1111
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around a dispute between Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC and Mallinckrodt PLC. Sanofi sold its rights in a drug to Mallinckrodt for $100,000 and a perpetual annual royalty. The drug was successful, but…
Date: April 25, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1375
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Alice Chu, who was indicted in September 2019 and convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud. Chu's trial was initially set for February 22,…
Date: April 24, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1481
Date: April 19, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3417
Date: April 18, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1256
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1273
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a long-standing trademark dispute between two charities, Kars 4 Kids, Inc. and America Can! Cars for Kids. Both organizations sell donated vehicles to fund children's education programs. In 2003,…
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2415
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 24-1594
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a challenge to New Jersey's primary election ballot design, known as the "county-line" ballot. The plaintiffs, Andy Kim, Sarah Schoengood, and Carolyn Rush, who are all Democratic candidates for various…
Date: April 16, 2024
Docket Number: 20-2229
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Terril Edwards, who was convicted in 2008 on three counts: possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking…
Date: April 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3449
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Sherry and David Lewis, who sued their auto insurer, GEICO, for allegedly breaching their insurance contract when their car was totaled. The Lewises claimed that GEICO undercompensated them by applying…
Date: April 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1378
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) and its affiliates, who sued several medical practices in separate actions in the District of New Jersey. GEICO alleged that the practices defrauded…
Date: April 12, 2024
Docket Number: 19-3508
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Carlos Hill, who was convicted in 2013 for possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), a law that makes it illegal for a person convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year in…
Date: April 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2077
Date: April 11, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1554
Justia Opinion Summary: Michael Rivera, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, was in an open-air telephone cage when he overheard prison officials preparing to forcibly extract another inmate, Ryan Miller, from a nearby cell. Anticipating the use of…
Date: April 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1937
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 21-9001
Justia Opinion Summary: This case revolves around Harvey Robinson, who was convicted of multiple crimes including three counts of first-degree murder. The prosecution sought the death penalty for each of the murder counts, arguing that Robinson…
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2284
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves a criminal defendant, William Barksdale, who was denied the right to testify in his own defense during a supervised release revocation hearing. Barksdale had previously pled guilty to conspiring to…
Date: April 3, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1577
Date: April 1, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1024
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around a defendant, Davit Davitashvili, who was charged with violating federal law by transmitting threats to injure his ex-wife, Olga Volosevich, and other unnamed individuals. This was after a long…
Date: March 27, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2273
Date: March 27, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3166
Justia Opinion Summary: A dispute arose over Pennsylvania's rule requiring mail-in and absentee voters to date the return envelope carrying their ballot. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania had ruled this requirement mandatory and declared that…
Date: March 26, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2097
Justia Opinion Summary: The case arose from appellant Khamal Fooks' claim that his attorney misled him about the parole eligibility related to his plea agreement. Fooks had pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, conspiracy, and carrying an…
Date: March 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1414
Date: March 25, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2036
Date: March 22, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2244
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves a dispute between Jennifer Zuch and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the allocation of estimated tax payments and the subsequent application of those payments to pay off her tax liability. Zuch…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 18-1868
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the plaintiff, Troy Moore, Sr., a prisoner, sued Correctional Officer Saajida Walton under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that she violated his…
Date: March 19, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1864
Justia Opinion Summary: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on a case involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and a group of trusts associated with the National Collegiate Student Loan Trust. The central…
Date: March 19, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1682
Date: March 14, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2785
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3217
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard an appeal from Mustafa Alowemer, a Syrian refugee living in the U.S. who had become a radical Islamist and plotted to bomb a Nigerian-American church in…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1095
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, Kobe Pinkney sued Officer Jared Frum and others for false arrest and malicious prosecution. Officer Frum, in an investigation into an assault, had obtained an arrest warrant for Pinkney based on a witness…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1778
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a group of energy providers and their trade associations challenged orders by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which permitted a new auction rule to be applied retroactively to a pending…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1790
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a group of electricity providers challenged orders by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), arguing that FERC allowed a new auction rule to apply retroactively to a pending auction. The auction…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1808
Justia Opinion Summary: Several power providers and their associations challenged orders from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that retroactively permitted a new auction rule to apply to a pending auction. The rule was…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1984
Justia Opinion Summary: A group of power providers contested orders from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that permitted a new auction rule to retroactively apply to a pending auction. The petitioners argued that this violated…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2544
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a dispute over the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) allowing a new auction rule to apply retroactively to a pending auction. This auction was administered by PJM Interconnection L.L.C., an…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2559
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved several petitioners challenging orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which allowed a new auction rule to retroactively apply to an auction that was already underway. The auction…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2560
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a group of electricity suppliers and their trade associations challenged orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that permitted PJM Interconnection L.L.C., a wholesale market operator, to…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2612
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case involving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and a group of petitioners, the petitioners challenged FERC's decision to allow a new auction rule to be applied retroactively. The auction in question,…
Date: March 11, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2016
Date: March 11, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2412
Justia Opinion Summary: The case in question is a petition for a writ of mandamus filed by Abbott Laboratories, Abbvie Inc., Abbvie Products LLC, Unimed Pharmaceuticals LLC, and Besins Healthcare, Inc. These petitioners were involved in a…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1886
Justia Opinion Summary: Claude P. Lacombe appealed the United States District Court for the District of Delaware's denial of habeas relief, arguing that the Delaware Supreme Court wrongfully denied his claims that the State breached its plea…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2839
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case of Robert Wharton, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office conceded that Wharton's death sentence should be vacated without conducting a comprehensive investigation into evidence against Wharton’s habeas…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-9001
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the appellant, Robert Wharton, was convicted of murder in 1985, and after the jury found the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors, he was sentenced to death. After exhausting his state…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1192
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Danny Cruz, a prisoner, hatched a plan to smuggle cell phones into prison and sell them to fellow inmates by bribing a prison guard. Upon being…
Date: March 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1844
Date: March 4, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3301
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reviewed a decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding unfair labor practices alleged against New Concepts for Living, Inc. New Concepts sought…
Date: March 1, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1297
Date: February 29, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2139
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Borough of Longport and the Township of Irvington, two New Jersey municipalities, sued Netflix, Inc. and Hulu, LLC, two popular video…
Date: February 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1910
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2557
Date: February 21, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1924
Justia Opinion Summary: In a class action suit, the plaintiffs, a group of patients, alleged that the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), who operate the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine),…
Date: February 21, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2920
Date: February 16, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1925
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the appellant, Paulette Barclift, sued Keystone Credit Services, LLC ("Keystone") for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices…
Date: February 16, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1238
Date: February 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2970
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case at hand, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of claims brought by a group of students and Children’s Health Defense, Inc. against Rutgers University. The plaintiffs…
Date: February 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3338
Date: February 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1557
Date: February 14, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2209
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a dispute over the rights of retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms in New Jersey. The plaintiffs, three retired officers and two organizations, sued New Jersey officials, arguing…
Date: February 14, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2209
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves a dispute over the interpretation of the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 (LEOSA), which allows certain qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms, and…
Date: February 13, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1854
Justia Opinion Summary: Yahye Herrow, a member of the minority Bandabow Tribe in Somalia, sought review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) denial of his claims for withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1383
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1688
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2350
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3033
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on an appeal by the U.S Government against the decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania to exclude…
Date: February 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2788
Justia Opinion Summary: In Pennsylvania, four family members, including two elderly parents, were injured during a pre-dawn, no-knock raid by the Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) of the Pennsylvania State Police. The police acted on…
Date: February 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3256
Date: February 6, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3132
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves a lawsuit against the United States for allegations of negligence in a search-and-rescue mission by the U.S. Coast Guard. The plaintiffs, the estate of Aaron Greenberg (who drowned in a boating…
Date: February 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2701
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, two New Jersey parents sued various school and law enforcement officials, alleging that their First Amendment rights were violated when they were punished for refusing to wear masks at school board…
Date: February 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2702
Justia Opinion Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dealt with two consolidated cases involving two New Jersey parents, who claimed they were retaliated against for protesting school policies related to mandatory masking…
Date: February 5, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1155
Date: February 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3014
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Gilroy St. Patrick Stewart was pulled over by Trooper George Tessitore for driving a vehicle with heavily tinted windows and a partially obstructed license plate, both violations of the Pennsylvania Vehicle…
Date: February 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3305
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves Vertiv, Inc., Vertiv Capital, Inc., and Gnaritis, Inc., Delaware corporations, who sued Wayne Burt, PTE Ltd., a Singaporean corporation, for defaulting on a loan. Vertiv sought damages and a…
Date: January 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2060
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the appellant, Narsan Lingala, was charged with four counts related to the attempted murder of his ex-wife. On appeal, Lingala argued that the…
Date: January 26, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2297
Date: January 24, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3068
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied petitions from energy generators and state utility commissions challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) acceptance of a tariff filed by…
Date: January 23, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2892
Date: January 23, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1356
Date: January 23, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1366
Date: January 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1343
Date: January 19, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2297
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves the bankruptcy of FTX Trading Ltd., a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency company that suffered a severe financial collapse. The collapse triggered criminal investigations revealing fraud and…
Date: January 18, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1832
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case involving the Second Amendment rights of 18-to-20-year-olds in Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that these individuals are included in "the people" whose right to…
Date: January 18, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2769
Date: January 18, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3162
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, a US citizen, Abdoulai Bah, had his life savings of $71,613 seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under suspicion of being…
Date: January 18, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2414
Date: January 12, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3096
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves Bradley Barlow, Frances Biddiscombe, and others who were members of either the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 668 or the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal…
Date: January 12, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1108
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, a group of former union members alleged that their First Amendment rights were violated when their respective unions continued to deduct…
Date: January 11, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2340
Justia Opinion Summary: Larry Trent Roberts spent 13 years in prison for a murder that he did not commit. After being exonerated, he sued several state actors involved in obtaining his wrongful conviction, including Assistant District Attorney…
Date: January 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1854
Date: January 4, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3205
Justia Opinion Summary: In a consolidated action before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, several parties, including PJM Power Providers Group, Electric Power Supply Association, and Pennsylvania Public Utility…
Date: January 4, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3243
Justia Opinion Summary: In this consolidated action, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reviewed a case concerning the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) acceptance of a tariff filed by PJM Interconnection,…
Date: January 4, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1965
Justia Opinion Summary: A group of petitioners, including several municipalities, private individuals, and organizations, challenged the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) approval of a new terminal for the Trenton-Mercer Airport. The…
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