Third Circuit Court of Appeals News

Senators should show some goodwill for the holidays by approving pending executive and judicial nominations, some of which have languished for months.

The battle over the hefty fines imposed for Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl is ready to come back to court.

A good Christmas gift for the courts involved in the Wesley A. Snyder fiasco would be a biography of William Gladstone , the British politician who famously said: "Justice delayed is justice denied." Take a look at just two of the hundreds of cases spawned by Snyder's Ponzi scheme, masquerading as a mortgage business, which swiped $26 million from ...

Persuading the federal courts to overturn a murder conviction is no simple matter, but lawyers for Zachary Wilson have now done it twice -- in two unrelated murder cases -- and the latest decision also throws out a death sentence .

A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a woman who ran away as a teenager and lived with a school security guard for a decade, agreeing with a lower court judge that the case was filed after the legal deadline.

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The former board president of Philadelphia Academy Charter School in the Northeast is appealing the sentence she received from a U.S. District Court judge last week on a mail-fraud charge.

Nearly two years to the day after he was found guilty for a 2007 drive-by shooting in Arbuckle, a Williams man was back in a Colusa County courtroom Wednesday hoping for a new, lighter sentence.

A three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments in a class-action lawsuit that has held up executions in Delaware for more than three years.

An insurance company had no duty to defend or indemnify personal injury claims brought by a woman who was repeatedly shot at by its insured while he was in a drunken rage, the 3rd Circuit has ruled.

Baron, Miles Thomas' collie, was seized by the Harrisburg Humane Society in July.

A man who was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison for robbing a Fayette County bank two years ago should be resentenced because a judge failed to take into account the man's deteriorating medical condition, an appeals court ruled.

Appeals court gives FCC and backers three weeks to explain why it should delay hearing legal challenges.

The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a man's drunkenness did not render his attempted shootings of a woman accidental and therefore did not trigger coverage under either his homeowners policy or his personal umbrella liability policy under Pennsylvania law.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in a case of first impression that an Americans with Disabilities Act discrimination claim against a company in bankruptcy should be treated like a dischargeable bankruptcy claim.

Lawyers for the Daily News , Inquirer and Philly.com squared off with their creditors' lawyers yesterday in a key court battle over whether the creditors can bid their IOU's in a bankruptcy auction of the company.

The class-action lawsuit that has been holding up executions in Delaware for more than three years will be headed to the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals today.

Creditors of bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers LLC should not be allowed to use their secured debt in a bid for the company because that would discourage cash bidders, an attorney for the company told an appeals court on Tuesday.

A federal judge in New Jersey has nixed an attempt by lawyers unhappy with their fees from a $13.5 million class action settlement with T-Mobile to re-litigate the issue in California state court.

Call for Papers: Symposium: Reflections on Iqbala 'Discerning Its Rule, Grappling With Its Implications Joe Seiner sends along this call for papers from Nancy Welsh at Penn State Law: On Friday, March 26, 2010, the Penn State Law Review will hold a symposium addressing the Supreme Courta TMs recent decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal.