Snapchatting Cheerleader Wins Free-Speech Case at 3rd Circuit
The Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that a school violated a cheerleader’s First Amendment rights when it kicked her off the squad over a profane Snapchat post done off-campus.
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Sandusky-Related Conviction Argued at Third Circuit
A Third Circuit panel grilled lawyers Tuesday about whether Penn State’s former president deserved to have his misdemeanor child endangerment conviction, related to his response to a complaint about Jerry Sandusky, overturned last year.
Read morePollution Cleanup
The U.S. government is not responsible for pollution cleanup costs at a former chromite ore processing plant in New Jersey, the Third Circuit ruled, finding its involvement at the plant during World War I and World War II did not make it an “operator” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
Read moreChild Trump Supporters
A 12-year-old Trump supporter could not prove that Newsweek’s portrayal of him in an article cast him in a false light, the Third Circuit ruled. An article in the publication quoted a professor discussing how the child and other Trump-supporting child spokespeople were used to “‘camouflage’ positions of the hard right ‘as feel-good sweetness and light, when, in fact, they are defending raw racism and sexual abuse.’”
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En Banc 3rd Circuit Weighs Amazon Liability to Blinded Woman
An appellate panel once revived the case, but the full Third Circuit stands in the way now of a woman’s fight to hold Amazon liable after she was blinded in an accident with a retractable dog leash.
Read moreFTC Presses 3rd Circuit on Reverse-Payment Drug Settlements
The Federal Trade Commission urged the Third Circuit Wednesday to revive claims that two drugmakers made improper reverse-payment settlements to preserve their monopoly on a blockbuster testosterone drug.
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Airline Workers Lose Class Status in Break-Time Action
Breaking up a class of American Airlines employees who say the company forces them to work through their breaks, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that the workers failed to show that their situations were uniform.
Read moreThird Circuit Revives RICO Claims Against Diabetes Drug Maker
GlaxoSmithKline must defend itself against racketeering and consumer fraud claims that it falsely marketed its diabetes drug Avandia as reducing heart problems when the drug actually increased the risk of heart attack, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreLegal Stink Over Landfill Odor Wafts Into 3rd Circuit
There’s a landfill in eastern Pennsylvania whose odor, residents say, extends for 20 square miles. The Third Circuit heard arguments Monday about whether one couple can seek damages on behalf of the entire community.
Read moreNonviolent Offenders Deserve Gun Rights, Tax Felon Tells 3rd Circuit
A lawyer for a woman trying to regain gun rights she lost after lying on her tax returns, a felony, gave the Third Circuit some ironic food for thought at oral arguments Tuesday.
Read moreSnap-Chatting Cheerleader Defends Speech Rights at 3rd Circuit
A lawyer for a cheerleader kicked off of her high school squad over a scurrilous Snap post urged the Third Circuit on Tuesday to affirm their courtroom victory.
Read morePolitically Ruined Orie Sisters 0 for 2 at Third Circuit
The sister of a former Pennsylvania state senator and a state Supreme Court justice who were all convicted on corruption charges is not entitled to habeas relief, the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThird Circuit OKs Buffer Zones for Anti-Abortion Protesters
The Third Circuit ruled unanimously Friday that a Pittsburgh buffer-zone ordinance that puts space between clinics and anti-abortion activists does not violate the protesters’ rights.
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American Airlines Urges 3rd Circuit to Break Up Class Action
Vying to dismantle a class action that says American Airlines forced employees to work during break time, a lawyer for the airlines told the Third Circuit on Tuesday that the specifics of each worker will vary too greatly to satisfy commonality.
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Third Circuit: Professor Who Compared Colleagues to Nazis Was Properly Fired
A Third Circuit panel Tuesday upheld the termination of a Marywood University professor who depicted the school’s president as Adolf Hitler in a 2012 parody video.
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