United States Third Circuit - June 2012 Opinion Summaries

Larson v. AT&T Mobility LLC

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law
In a class action brought against cellular phone service providers who included an flat-rate early termination fee (ETF) provision in their cellular...

In Re: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Wage & Hour Employment Practices Litigation

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a nationwide collective class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) alleging failure to pay required overtime wages, the district...

Humana Med Plan Inc v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a suit under the Medicare Act, alleging that defendant as a "primary payer" was obligated to reimburse plaintiff as a "secondary payer" for...

Askew v. Trustees Gen Assembly Church

Corp. Governance, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a dispute stemming from an internal schism in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, brought by a plaintiff whose membership...

Treasurer State NJ v. US Dept Treas.

Banking Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action brought by seven plaintiff States seeking to recover proceeds of matured but unredeemed US savings bonds from the US Treasury, the...

US v. Figueroa

Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. sections 922(g)(1) and 924 (e) is affirmed over claim that procedural...

Vasquez v. Strada

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a petition for habeas relief, the District Court's denial of petition for is affirmed where it properly concluded that: 1) the Bureau of Prisons...

Lewis v. Alexander

Class Actions, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a a putative class action challenging the validity of Section 9 of Pennsylvania Act 42 of 2005, codified at 62 Pa. Stat. Ann. section 1414,...

US v. Thompson

Motion for a reduced sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. section 3582(c)(2), after the US Sentencing Commission issued a retroactive amendment to the...

Cardona v. Bledsoe

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a petitions for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2241, arguing that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) illegally referred petitioner to the Special...