Environmentalists urged the Third Circuit on Friday to expand the reporting duties owed by U.S. Steel after harmful emissions lingered in a Pennsylvania town for three months following a plant fire.
Read moreWhen it entered into a company creating the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission in 1935, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor ceded its authority to enforce building safety regulations at the commission’s new administration building in Bucks County, the Third CIrcuit ruled.
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Appeals court finds Philadelphia’s proposed safe drug-injection site to violate federal law.
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The Third Circuit on Tuesday reinstated the child endangerment conviction of Penn State’s former president for his failure to report suspected sexual abuse by former football coach Jerry Sandusky.
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President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge the state’s election results.
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Lying on her tax returns will cost a woman her right to own a firearm for a lifetime, the Third Circuit affirmed Tuesday.
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The Third Circuit showed little sign Monday that it will stop a nonprofit from opening a so-called safe injection site where drug users can get high under medical supervision.
Read moreThe Third Circuit upheld a ruling against Republican congressional candidate Jim Bognet and four citizens in their suit challenging a three-day extension for counting mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.
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The Third Circuit threw out an order Wednesday that required two drugmakers to disgorge $448 million for trying to keep generic versions of their testosterone replacement drug AndroGel off the market, while also finding them liable for monopolization.
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Philadelphia courts are not violating spectators’ constitutional rights by preventing them from recording audio of bail hearings, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe family of three Philadelphia residents who perished in a fire after firefighters extinguished the blaze at their home but left them inside to die of smoke inhalation cannot seek damages from the city, the Third Circuit ruled. There is no evidence the 911 operator intentionally neglected to inform the firefighters that residents remained in the burning building.
Read moreThe Third Circuit vacated a $750,000 damages award given to a man placed in a chokehold and hit with a stun gun for publicly announcing to bidders at a sheriff’s foreclosure sale that he and his wife had an unrecorded interest in a property being auctioned. The City’s policy prohibiting public announcements during foreclosure sales is a reasonable restriction on speech.
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Overturning a nearly million-dollar verdict given to a man who was tackled and Tased at a sheriff’s sale, the Third Circuit ruled Friday that Philadelphia’s rules against announcements at such auctions are not unconstitutional.
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Resurrecting a nonprofit’s redlining-awareness campaign, the Third Circuit dropped the hammer Monday on bus advertising rules that bar topics considered political or otherwise inflammatory.
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Ruling for the third time on a case over pornography regulations spanning the last decade, the Third Circuit found it unconstitutional for adult filmmakers to keep records on performers’ ages.
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An obvious loophole should have doomed Environmental Protection Agency approval of Pennsylvania’s plan to limit air pollutants, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday.
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The Third Circuit revived a federal class action Monday over the stench of a Pennsylvania landfill affecting some 20,000 people.
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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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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.
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