Judge Leonard I. Garth died last week at age 95. Born in Brooklyn on April 27, 1921, he went to college at Columbia and got his law degree at Harvard....
Chief Judge McKee announced today that Judge Sloviter will assume inactive status as a judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She made that decision due to "a serious...
Somewhat overshadowed by the run-up to President Obama's nomination yesterday of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court of the United States was the President's nomination of Rebecca Ross Haywood,...
By a vote of 82-6, the United States Senate last night confirmed Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Restrepo fills the vacancy that arose...
The Third Circuit has proposed a set of Rules of Attorney Discipline Enforcement for public comment. The text of the proposed rules can be found here. In summary, the proposal...
Hargrove v. Sleepy's, LLC, 220 N.J. 289 (2015). Today, speaking through Judge Cuff, the Supreme Court issued an opinion on a certified question posed to the Court by the Third...
The Senate today voted to confirm Cheryl Krause, a resident of New Jersey, for a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a partner at Dechert's Philadelphia office,...
Nuveen Municipal Trust v. WithumSmith Brown P.C., 752 F.3d 600 (3d Cir. 2014). As discussed here, the Supreme Court of New Jersey has occasionally accepted requests from the the Third Circuit...
Matthew Stiegler, an attorney in Pennsylvania, recently began to publish a Third Circuit of Appeals blog. It is available at http://thirdcircuitblog.com. He has already posted some very interesting things, and has...
At the upcoming 38th Annual United States District Court Judicial Conference sponsored by the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey on March 20, 2014, one of the programs...
