• Quinn v. Avco Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Aerospace | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Restrepo
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia M. Devers, Devers Miska Law, Bala Cynwyd, PA for appellants.
    for defendant: Andrea S. Brooks, Wilks Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; John S. Bagby, Jr., Bagby & Associates, LLC, Paoli, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: 22-1596

    District court correctly applied General Aviation Revitalization Act's statute of repose to product liability wrongful death claims, where federal regulations limited rebuilding and selling of aircraft parts to aviation manufacturers and thus claims arising from rebuilding of aircraft engine part were claims against a "manufacturer."

  • Stouffer v. Union R.R. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Fuentes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Grace, Cohen & Grace, Pittsburgh, PA; Sammy Y. Sugiura, Mooney Green Saindon Murphy & Welch, Washington, DC for appellant.
    for defendant: Courtney C. Brennan, Thomas M. Pohl, Mary-Jo Rebelo, Burns White, Pittsburgh, PA for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-1680

    District court correctly dismissed disparate impact age discrimination claim where complaint contained no specific factual allegations to demonstrate that company policies had a statistically significant impact on older workers.

  • United States v. Savage

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Jordan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Berman, Michele A. Smith, Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia, Hackensack, NJ; Thomas C. Egan, III, Norristown, PA; Susan M. Lin, Kairys Rudovsky Messing Feinberg & Lin, Philadelphia, PA; William R. Spade, Jr., Blowing Rock, NC for appellants.
    for defendant: John M. Gallagher, Office of United States Attorney, Allentown, PA; David E. Troyer, Robert Zauzmer, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: 14-1493

    Defendants appealed their conviction and sentence on charges including murder, conspiracy to commit murder and RICO conspiracy and court found one defendant failed to show her attorney had a conflict of interest, trial court properly denied severance, inflammatory comments by gang ringleader were properly admitted and jury instruction on RICO conspiracy did not improperly amend the indictment. The court affirmed the District Court's judgment.

  • Huber v. Simon's Agency, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-30
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Krause
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David B. Shaver, Surdyk Dowd & Turner, Dayton, OH for appellant.
    for defendant: Yitzchak Zelman, Ari H. Marcus, Marcus & Zelman, Asbury Park, NJ for appellee.

    Case Number: 22-2483

    Incurring costs to understand confusing collection letter was sufficient to confer Article III standing without the need to rely on the informational injury doctrine, but further factfinding was needed to determine if other potential class members suffered the same harm.

  • Ingram v. Experian Info. Solutions, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-23
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Restrepo
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cary L. Flitter, Andrew M. Milz, Jody T. López-Jacobs, Flitter Milz, Narberth, PA; Brent F. Vullings, Vullings Law Group, LLC, Collegeville, PA for appellants.
    for defendant: David P. Helwig, Marks O’Neill O’Brien Doherty & Kelly, Pittsburgh, PA; Cecil J. Jones, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: 21-2430

    District court erred in ruling that furnisher of consumer credit information was exempt from obligation to investigate indirect dispute referred by a consumer reporting agency upon deeming the dispute frivolous, where the Fair Credit Reporting Act expressly granted that exception solely to consumer reporting agencies for indirect disputes.

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  • United States v. Esham

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Scirica
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-3203

    Evidence was sufficient to convict doctor for distribution and conspiracy where the jury was free to credit the government's expert's opinion that the doctor's prescriptions fell outside the bounds of legitimate medical purposes and recorded conversations could permit an inference that the doctor was aware of his role in the distribution scheme.

  • Yankees Ent. & Sports Network, LLC v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Freeman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-3121

    District Court properly dismissed insurance coverage dispute for lack of personal jurisdiction where neither party was headquartered in Delaware and the underlying policy did not cover any property or loss in Delaware.

  • United States v. Kousisis

    Publication Date: 2023-10-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Construction | Federal Government | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge McKee
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa A. Mathewson, Philadelphia, PA for appellants.
    for defendant: Paul G. Shapiro, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA; David E. Troyer, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: 19-3679

    District court erred in setting the loss calculation at defendants' total profits where defendants lawfully performed work on the public construction project, with the DOT/PennDOT merely expecting defendants to obtain certain construction materials from a qualifying supplier.

  • Hickey v. Univ. of Pittsburgh

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Krause
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward W. Ciolko, Nicholas Colella, Jamisen A. Etzel, Gary F. Lynch, Lynch Carpenter, Pittsburgh, PA; Jeffrey A. Klafter, Seth R. Lesser, Klafter Lesser, Rye Brook, NY; Eric Poulin, Poulin, Willey & Anastopoulo, Charleston, SC; Roy T. Willey, IV, Anastopoulo Law Firm, Charleston, SC; Stuart A. Carpey, Plymouth Meeting, PA for appellants.
    for defendant: James C. Martin, Colin E. Wrabley, Reed Smith, Pittsburgh, PA; Gerard A. Dever, Roberta D. Liebenberg, Fine Kaplan & Black, Philadelphia, PA; Burt M. Rublin, Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia, PA for appellees.

    Case Number: 21-2013

    Former students' allegations that the universities had retained their tuition and fees in full after transitioning to remote learning and canceling campus events during the pandemic supported a reasonable inference that the parties had impliedly contracted for in-person education and supported a claim for unjust enrichment.

  • Rogers v. Superintendent Greene SCI

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Matey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hayden Nelson-Major, Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Katherine C. Thompson, Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Capital Habeas Unit, Philadelphia, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Shoshana D. Silverstein, Philadelphia County Office of District Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellees.

    Case Number: 21-2601

    Trial counsel was deficient in failing to object to trial judge's admonishment of witness that may have influenced the witness's decision to change their testimony favorable to the defense and failing to cross-examine the witness regarding their changed testimony.