Third Circuit Court of Appeals News

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.

Cambria County prosecutors on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Ernest "Ernie" Simmons.

Also Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court: * Refused to grant a stay of execution for Ohio inmate Kenneth Biros, who was put to death with a one-drug lethal injection instead of the usual three-drug cocktail.

On Tuesday December 7, 2009 the U.S. Supreme Court has vacated and remanded the Pennsylvania Kindler Case.

The Supreme Court will let lower courts consider reinstating a death sentence for a convicted murderer who twice escaped from prison after being found guilty of killing a man who was planning to testify against him.

'Twas the nightmare before Christmas late last month for Michael Stratechuk of Maplewood, N.J., when a federal appeals court upheld a local school district policy barring religious music from school events during the holiday season.

Wikimedia commons Ok, so perhaps the so-called "War on Christmas" isn't exactly a women's issue, but hey, as a woman, I think it's an issue.