United States Third Circuit - June 2009 Opinion Summaries

Grammer v. John J. Kane Regional Centers

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action brought under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Amendments, district court judgment finding no right of action under the...

US v. Waterman

Criminal Law & Procedure
District court order suppressing evidence against defendant is reversed where defendant was not seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment...

Binder & Binder, P.C. v. Handel

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law, Government Benefits
In an appeal from an order discharging Debtor's debt to Plaintiff law firm, the order is affirmed, where the government had not waived its sovereign...

Hagan v. Rogers

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action by prisoners alleging that the prison failed to address a contagious skin disease, the dismissal of the complaint is reversed, where the...

In re Harvard Indus., Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Tax Law
In the IRS's appeal from an order allowing a carry-back for certain of Debtor's claimed expenses, the order is affirmed in part, where a distributor's...

Berne v. Gov't of the Virgin Islands

Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In an appeal from the District Court's order finding the Government of the Virgin Islands in contempt for violating a consent decree relating the...

US v. Styer

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's drug sentence is affirmed, where: 1) Defendant was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his 18 U.S.C. section 3582(c)(2) motion; and...

Issiaka v. Atttorney Gen. of the US

Immigration Law
Petitions for review of a decision ordering removal and denying plaintiff's applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the...

Huston v. Procter & Gamble Paper Products Corp.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for sexual harassment and retaliation brought under Title VII, district court grant of summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where...

William A. Graham Co. v. Haughey

Copyright, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property
In an action involving an insurance firm's accrual of claims under the Copyright Act, which has a three-year statute of limitations for civil actions,...