United States Third Circuit - March 2012 Opinion Summaries

Macfarlan v. Ivy Hill SNF, LLC

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit bringing claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Rehabilitation Act, and Pennsylvania...

US v. Dahmen

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a sentencing challenge based on the government's alleged breach of a plea agreement that made no mention of the five-level enhancement that the...

Sec'y of Labor v. Doyle

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by the Secretary of Labor against individuals arising from their alleged breach of fiduciary duties to a union health benefit plan...

Knepper v. Rite Aid Corp.

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In consolidated opt-out Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(3) damages class actions based on state statutory wage and overtime laws that paralleled the federal...

Estate of Kensinger v. URL Pharma, Inc.

ERISA, Family Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an action by a decedent's estate against an ERISA plan administrator and the decedent's ex-wife, who was a named beneficiary on her ex-husband's...

Sistrunk v. Rozum

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for habeas corpus is affirmed, where: 1) it was undisputed that the petition was filed long after the one-year timeliness period...

DeNaples v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Administrative Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In a case involving a settlement under which Pennsylvania agreed to pay landowners for a taking in five yearly installments, a Tax Court order...

Gonzalez v. Sec'y of Dep't of Homeland Security

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Immigration Law, Remedies
Summary judgment denying a petition for review of a USCIS denial of a naturalization application for lack of good moral character is affirmed, where:...

Leslie v. Att'y General

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
In a case in which the government detained a Jamaican national for nearly four years without a bond hearing pending removal proceedings, a district...

Race Tires America, Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Sports Law
In a case in which a tire supplier lost on its Sherman Act claims against a competitor and a motorsports sanctioning body, the district court's award...