United States Third Circuit - September 2010 Opinion Summaries

In re: Cmty. Bank of N. Virginia & Guaranty Nat'l Bank of Tallahassee Second Mortgage Loan Litig.

Banking Law, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a nationwide class action lawsuit alleging predatory home equity lending scheme involving two banks and a company that purchased second mortgage...

Florence v. Bd. of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit challenging the strip search of plaintiff upon his admission to the general population following his arrest...

US v. Riley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence, White Collar Crime
Convictions of a former mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a co-defendant for engaging in a fraudulent scheme to purchase city-owned parcels of real...

Duhaney v. Attorney General

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Immigration Law
A Jamaican citizen's petition for review of the BIA's decision finding the petitioner removable as an alien convicted of an aggravated felony is...

US v. Mundy

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
Conviction and sentence of defendant for possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with intent to distribute and for possessing with intent to...

Betts v. New Castle Youth Dev. Ctr.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Juvenile Law, Sports Law
In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a state-run juvenile detention center and several of its staff members, claiming various...

Anderson v. Wachovia Mortgage Corp.

Banking Law, Civil Rights, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In African-American plaintiffs' suit against Wachovia under 42 U.S.C. section 1981 and various state law claims, claiming that certain conditions...

Kurns v. A.W. Chesterton Inc.

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability, Transportation
In plaintiffs' suit on behalf of a decedent, asserting a number of state law causes of action related to decedent's alleged exposure to asbestos...

US v. Stadtmauer

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Tax Law, White Collar Crime
Conviction of defendant for conspiracy to defraud the United States and for willfully aiding in the filing of materially false or fraudulent tax...

Lozano v. City of Hazleton

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiffs' suit against the City of Hazleton to enjoin enforcement of ordinances that attempt to regulate employment of, and provision of rental...