Third Circuit Court of Appeals News

While attorneys have yet to release details about the city's $5 million settlement agreement with widow Carin Sollman, it appears Easton has few options in raising the money to pay the bill.

On October 14, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a split decision in a criminal case that is likely to prove significant both for legal doctrine relating to the advocacy of illegal activity, and for the future of animal rights activism.

Easton City Council has unanimously approved a $5 million settlement with Carin Sollman, the widow of slain police officer Jesse Sollman who was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow police officer in March 2005 inside police headquarters.

A federal appeals court struck down a 2005 Pittsburgh ordinance that created two types of zones intended to prevent protestors from harassing patients at area abortion clinics Friday.

A federal judge has approved a $5.9 million settlement in the civil rights suit challenging Philadelphia's blanket policy of strip-searching every person admitted into the city's prison system.

A federal appeals court said Thursday that a judge did not violate a former Hermitage chiropractor's rights during his fraud trial, and also backed the judge on Brent J. Detelich's other appeal issues.

The government shouldn't be able to revoke a scientist's security clearance without explaining its action, a lawyer for a nuclear physicist said Wednesday.

A federal appeals court has struck down an ordinance that created two types of buffer zones around medical facilities after a Christian legal group challenged the law on behalf of a nurse who protests abortions.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the life sentence for a man convicted of flooding Erie's streets with more than 450 pounds of crack cocaine in the mid-1990s. Thirty-eight-year-old Carl Knight appealed his life sentence saying changes to federal sentencing guidelines warrant a lesser sentence.

The city will consider an appeal of a federal judge's latest refusal to dismiss Carin Sollman's $20 million lawsuit in her husband's accidental shooting death.

In a huge setback for Countrywide Financial Corp., a federal appeals court has revived a national class action brought by homebuyers who accused the lender of concocting a kickback scheme in which buyers were required to purchase mortgage insurance from one of a handful of companies that in turn took out reinsurance policies from one of ...

ALL OUT NOV. 12 IN D.C. Protest to save Mumia's life Civil rights investigation demanded By Dolores Cox Philadelphia Published Oct 28, 2009 4:49 PM The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal coalition convened an urgent meeting here on Oct.

An attorney for a western Pennsylvania Egyptian scientist whose top security clearance was revoked by the Department of Energy says he deserves to know why.

A federal appeals court must decide whether the case of a 14-year-old girl who was forced to live with a 37-year-old school security guard for 10 years should move forward.

Attorney Mario Apuzzo of Jamesburg, NJ, today filed an appeal with the Federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, PA, on behalf of plaintiffs Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., Lehigh County, PA; Lowell T. Patterson, Burlington County, NJ; Darrell J. LeNormand, Middlesex County, NJ; and Donald H. Nelsen, Jr., Middlesex County, NJ; challenging ...

Update: Former state Sen. Joseph Coniglio, a Paramus Democrat convicted on federal corruption charges in connection with his role as a consultant to Hackensack University Medical Center, has been directed to report to the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., on Nov.

California's Constitutional Officers filed opening briefs with the 3rd District Court of Appeals for Case # 060694 on Tuesday.

A 31-year-old man found fatally shot Wednesday south of Wilmington had been released last month from federal custody, according to court records.

Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and another man have pleaded no contest in Los Angeles to threatening a newspaper reporter.

Closing the door to plea negotiations, District Attorney Patrick Kiniry said Wednesday that prosecutors will seek a death sentence again against a Johnstown man who likely will be retried on first-degree murder charges in the slaying of an 80-year-old city woman 17 years ago.