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Publication Date: 2020-08-17
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: Federal Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Rendell
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Case Number: 20-0887
District court erred in denying summary judgment dismissal of inmate's first amendment retaliation claim asserting he was fired from prison commissary job for complaining about officers' harassment based on religion and court declined to extend a Bivens remedy for first amendment retaliation claims brought in the prison workplace assignment context. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2020-07-20
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0765
Delaying disclosure of jurors' names following mistrial until pending charges were resolved by verdict or dismissal constituted sufficiently narrowly-tailored burden on First Amendment rights of public access to criminal trials in light of concerns about maintaining a fair trial for defendant on retrial. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2020-07-13
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Krause
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Case Number: 20-0725
In this precedential case, the third circuit held that the first amendment protects students engaging in off-campus speech to the same extent it protects speech by citizens in the community at large and the seminal holding in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Districtdid not apply to plaintiff's off-campus speech.
Publication Date: 2020-07-06
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Zulick
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Case Number: 20-0592
A property owner did not exhaust his administrative remedies and he failed to demonstrate that an ordinance regulating shooting ranges was unconstitutional.
Publication Date: 2020-06-29
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
Judge: District Judge Eddy
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Case Number: 20-0672
Plaintiff, who was a pretrial detainee in a prison restricted housing unit, could not sustain a claim under the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the eighth amendment since the clause does not apply until after sentence and conviction; however, he did sufficiently plead a claim for an alleged violation of his right to procedural due process. The court granted in part and denied in part defendants' motion to dismiss.
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Publication Date: 2020-06-22
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Jordan
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Case Number: 20-0632
The court of appeals held that no extension of Bivensliability was warranted in this case, where federal defendants allegedly interfered with an inmate's right to marryas there were sound reasons to believe the legislature might doubt the efficacy or necessity of a damages remedyfor interfering with an inmate's right to marry. The appellate court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2020-06-01
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
Judge: Judge Nanovic
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Case Number: 20-0537
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act infringed on a defendant's fundamental right to reputation under the state constitution, because the act relied on an irrebuttable presumption that was not universally true. As applied to defendant, the court held that the registration requirements were unconstitutional, so it vacated that portion of his sentence.
Publication Date: 2020-03-02
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Saylor
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Case Number: 20-0225
In an opinion announcing the judgment of the court, the high court held that the trial court did not violate defendant's constitutional right to self-representation when, during his criminal trial on charges of sexual assault against a minor, the court prohibited the pro se defendant from personally cross-examining the victim. The high court affirmed the superior court's decision.
Publication Date: 2020-02-24
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Zulick
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Case Number: 20-0121
The court denied cross-motions for summary judgment, because factual issues remained regarding whether an ordinance was unconstitutional as applied.
Publication Date: 2020-02-10
Practice Area: Constitutional Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Rambo
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Case Number: 20-0126
Plaintiff could not maintain claims against two municipal employees or the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office where his amended complaint did not identify any unconstitutional municipal policy or custom that allegedly caused his injuries or any facts suggesting that his injuries were caused by a failure or inadequacy by the municipality. The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss.
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