3rd Circuit (incl. bankruptcy)

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has appellate jurisdiction over several US states including: The District of Delaware, District of New Jersey, and the Districts of Eastern/Western/Middle Pennsylvania. The Third Circuit also manifests its jurisdictional power over the US Virgin Islands.

Unlike the 12-other circuit courts in the United States, the Third Circuit was created under the IV Amendment rather than the III, which the other courts were created under. There are a total of 11 courthouses in the Third Circuit. The main courthouse, for the Third Circuit is James A. Byrne United States Courthouse in Philadelphia, PA. The US District Court for Delaware is in Wilmington. The Eastern District of New Jersey is in Newark. In Pennsylvania, the Eastern District is in Philadelphia, Middle District in Scranton, and Western District sits in Pittsburgh. The District for the US Virgin Islands is in Charlotte Amalie, USVI.

The Third Circuit is highly influential in setting precedent and hearing cases which deal with major corporations. More than half of the major companies in the United States are incorporated in Delaware. Because of this lawsuit dealing with such corporations are typically heard by the District Court in the State. Cases where a state court lacks personal jurisdiction over individuals initiating a lawsuit typically go through the Circuit Courts.  

There are currently 14 active judges appointed under the Third Circuit and 11 senior judges. David Brooks Smith is the chief judge of the Third Circuit.

Several cases have been heard by the Third Circuit, a recent decision Piscataway School Board v Taxman (1996) was a case which dealt with racial-diversity. The ruling served as precedent for future Section VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cases. This is just one of the many cases which has set judicial precedent for future cases in the District.  

The National Law Review covers litigation between major corporations and individual petitioners, bankruptcy proceedings, stockholder and derivative actions, appeals to the tax court, and bankruptcy petitions. Cases arising from Constitutional rights, federal duties, and cases which don’t fall under individual state courts’ jurisdiction are also highly covered on the website.

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Apr
12
2021
Weekly Bankruptcy Alert April 12, 2021 (For the week ending April 11, 2021) Pierce Atwood LLP
Apr
12
2021
DOJ Continues Price Gouging Enforcement Under the Defense Production Act Proskauer Rose LLP
Apr
8
2021
Court Won’t Step in For OSHA in Pandemic-Plagued Meat Packing Plant Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Apr
6
2021
FAA Preempts New Jersey’s Implied Restriction on Use of Arbitration Agreements, Court Finds Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
5
2021
Weekly Bankruptcy Alert April 5, 2021 (For the week ending April 4, 2021) Pierce Atwood LLP
Apr
5
2021
District of Delaware Recites Policy Rationale for Dismissing Willful and Indirect Infringement Claims for Failure to Plead Pre-Suit Knowledge of Infringement Mintz
Apr
1
2021
CFPB Suit Against Student Loan Trusts Dismissed Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Mar
22
2021
Weekly Bankruptcy Alert March 22, 2021 (For the week ending March 21, 2021) Pierce Atwood LLP
Mar
18
2021
Earl v. NVR, Inc., trading as Heartland Homes of PA: Werwinski is dead Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
Mar
10
2021
Victory by Default: TCPA Defendant Ends up Winning a TCPA Case By Doing Nothing At All Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
3
2021
Playing Politics: National Republican Senatorial Committee Sued for Unwanted Robocalls Troutman Amin, LLP
Mar
1
2021
Who Has Standing in a Data Breach Litigation? In The Third Circuit, Fear of Speculative Future Harm Still Doesn’t Cut It Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
25
2021
SCOTUS Denies Certiorari in Cases Concerning FCA Liability Requirement, Objective Falsity Circuit Split Remains Intact Faegre Drinker
Feb
24
2021
TCPA Plaintiff Argues he wasn’t Injured in Attempt to Dodge Federal Jurisdiction Faegre Drinker
Feb
24
2021
A “Significant Age Difference” Will Suffice to Advance an Age Discrimination Claim Stark & Stark
Feb
23
2021
Supreme Court Declines to Resolve Circuit Split on FCA “Objective Falsity” Issue Foley & Lardner LLP
Feb
23
2021
A Game of Survivor: Private Credit Restructuring Year in Review Proskauer Rose LLP
Feb
11
2021
Federal District Court Order Provides Guidance Related to Disciplining Employees Who Abuse Leaves of Absence Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
10
2021
With Oral Argument Completed, Courts have Been More Inclined to Grant Stays Pending the Outcome in Facebook v. Duguid Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Feb
10
2021
Ninth Circuit: Insurers Must Honor Their Promises to Out-Of-Network Providers Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Feb
9
2021
Class Action Litigation Newsletter | Winter 2020/2021 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
9
2021
Gerber and Plum Hit with Consumer Class-Action Lawsuits in Wake of Congressional Report on Heavy Metals in Baby Food Keller and Heckman LLP
Feb
4
2021
There’s No Sugarcoating It: Pocky’s Cookie Design Trade Dress Is Functional McDermott Will & Emery
Jan
22
2021
Third Circuit Clarifies Sufficiency Of Discussions Of Social Security Disability Insurance Awards In Adverse Disability Benefit Determinations Under Pre-2018 ERISA Claims Procedure Regulation Robinson & Cole LLP
Jan
21
2021
COVID-19: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Developments the National Landscape and The State of Play in Pennsylvania K&L Gates
Jan
18
2021
Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana User May Proceed With Disability Discrimination And Retaliation Claims Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jan
12
2021
Third Circuit Holds That an Arbitration Award Was a Judicial Record and Must Be Unsealed Miller Canfield
Jan
12
2021
Only One Bite at the Class Certification Apple: Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request for a “Do-Over” Based on Evidence that Could Have Been Brought Before Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
12
2021
Liability Upon Payment: A Court Recognizes a Duty in Data Breach Litigation Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
11
2021
Cybersecurity Safeguards Implemented by Federal Judiciary for Filing Highly Sensitive Court Documents Faegre Drinker
Jan
4
2021
D.N.J. Rejects Plaintiff’s Fee Request In Connection With State Court Remand Of Action Removed Under ERISA, Scaling Back Earlier Charge That Defendant’s Removal Was Nonsensical Robinson & Cole LLP
Dec
23
2020
For those keeping score … Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Dec
21
2020
Top Five Drug and Device Developments of 2020 Faegre Drinker
Dec
15
2020
Court Gives Cold Shoulder to FTC’s False Advertising Claims Against Housing Insulation Company Proskauer Rose LLP
Dec
11
2020
FTC’s Hospital Merger Challenges Hit Speedbump in Philadelphia Mintz
Dec
10
2020
TCPA Quick Hitter: “Click and Pause” ATDS Allegations Still Finding Favor in the Third Circuit Troutman Amin, LLP
Nov
25
2020
Can Employers Require Employees to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19? Stark & Stark
Nov
17
2020
Tavern’s COVID-19 Coverage Complaint Survives Preliminary Objection Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Nov
14
2020
TCPA Litigation Update — Eleventh Circuit Rejects Incentive Awards, District of New Jersey Court Refuses to Adopt Reasoning Mintz
Nov
13
2020
Bankruptcy Venues: An Excerpt from Trends in Large Corporate Bankruptcy and Financial Distress Cornerstone Research
Nov
11
2020
Middle Ground: Court Stays Class Discovery But Allows Individual Merits Discovery Pending Facebook Appeal Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
10
2020
Treacherous Waters: TCPA Defense Lawyer Sued for Malpractice After Shelton Shuts Down Business With TCPA Judgment Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
10
2020
Restaurant’s Challenge to COVID-19 Declarations Could Go to Bankruptcy Court Stark & Stark
Nov
10
2020
Class Action Litigation Newsletter Fall 2020 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Nov
9
2020
“Fully and Properly Investigate” – a Lesson in Adequately Pleading Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
6
2020
Anheuser-Busch Not Liable for False Advertising for Pointing Out to Consumers that Miller Lite and Coors Light Use “Corn Syrup” Stark & Stark
Nov
5
2020
Miles of Deceit: Protecting Yourself From Duplicitous Dealers Selling Out Foley & Lardner LLP
Nov
5
2020
Punching Bag or Counterpuncher Part II: Recouping Your Fees Under the Lanham Act Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Nov
3
2020
Federal Trials in Pittsburgh Postponed until February 2021 McDermott Will & Emery
Nov
2
2020
Discretion of Federal District Court Judges to Manage Their Dockets Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
 

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