United States Third Circuit - August 2009 Opinion Summaries

Office of the Comm'r of Baseball v. Markell

Gaming Law, Sports Law
Denial of a motion for preliminary injunction filed by various sports leagues seeking to prevent Delaware officials from implementing parts of its...

Nationwide Life Ins. Co. v. Commonwealth Land Title Ins. Co.

Insurance Law
In a dispute involving land title insurance policy, district court judgment granting title insurer's motion to dismiss is reversed where: 1) the...

Nova Chem., Inc. v. Sekisui Plastics Co. LTD.

Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a licensing agreement dispute involving restriction of Styrofoam-type sales to certain Asian countries, district court's grant of summary judgment...

Prowel v. Wise Bus. Forms, Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action under Title VII involving claims of gender stereotyping and religious harassment, district court's grant of...

Robertson v. Klem

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In habeas proceedings arising from petitioner's conviction of two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, district court's judgment is reversed where...

City of Wilkes-Barre v. Sheils

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
District court's judgment barring city from asserting a right of subrogation against a police officer to recover payments under the Pennsylvania Heart...

US v. Lychock

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court's decision to deviate from a 30-37 month Guideline range down to a sentence of five years probation for a defendant convicted of...

US v. Tann

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction on two counts of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition under 18 U.S.C. section 922(g)(1) is affirmed in part and...

McTernan v. City of York

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Remedies
In a case brought by protesters against the City of York alleging that a ramp in front of the Planned Parenthood Facility was a public forum, district...

US v. Hopkins

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
On remand from the Supreme Court in light of Chamber v. US, 129 S.Ct. 687 (2009), defendant's sentence under the enhanced guidelines is affirmed but...