United States Third Circuit - February 2012 Opinion Summaries

Shaver v. Siemens Corp.

Class Actions, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In a class action by former employees alleging that the employer and its retirement plans violated ERISA by refusing to provide them with permanent...

US v. Moyer

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prosecution in which one police officer was convicted 18 USC section 1519 of knowingly falsifying police reports with the intent to impede,...

DelRio-Mocci v. Connolly Properties Inc.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit by a lessee in an apartment complex against its property managers, alleging injury to his leasehold property because the managers engaged in...

US v. Saferstein

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a prosecution on charges related to a fraudulent business scheme, in which the defendant pled guilty and waived his appellate rights subject to...

US v. Lewis

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction on firearm offenses is vacated because a firearm found on the defendant during a traffic stop should have been suppressed as the fruit of...

Castro v. Att'y General

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
On petition for review of a BIA denial of the petitioner's motion to reconsider the sustaining of an immigration judge's order that the petitioner be...

Baker v. US

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
On a prisoner's pro se appeal of orders denying his untimely motions to reopen the time to take an appeal and his untimely motions for reconsideration...

Long v. Atlantic City Police Dep't

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
On a prisoner's pro se appeal of a denial of his untimely motion for reconsideration of a prior order dismissing his 42 USC section 1983 complaint,...

Sharp v. Superintendent Johnson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a prisoner's suit claiming that two prison facilities unlawfully denied his request to accommodate his particular religious group, a magistrate...

Marcavage v. National Park Service

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action by an abortion protester under 42 USC Section 1983 against the National Park Service, the United States Department of the Interior, and...