United States Third Circuit - March 2018 Opinion Summaries

In Re: Petition of Frescati Shipping Company, Ltd.

Oil and Gas Law, International Law, Contracts
In the case of the complicated fallout from an oil tanker spill, parties were allocated responsibility based on contracts and equitable recoupment...

Philadelphia Taxi Association, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Affirming a district court dismissal of a case brought by numerous taxi associations seeking to prevent Uber from taking their business because Uber's...

Bennett v. Superintendent Graterford SCI

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Granting writ of habeas corpus in the case of a teenager whose partner in crime shot a store clerk during a robbery who was convicted of murder and...

Spireas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Tax Law, Drugs & Biotech
Affirming a Tax Court determination that royalties paid on technology license agreements should be treated as ordinary income rather than as capital...

Lewin v. Attorney General of the United States of America

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
Denying the petition for review of an immigration case in which the court affirmed that the petitioner's conviction under New Jersey's Receiving...

Haberle v. Troxell

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law
Affirming in part and vacating in part district court rulings in a case involving a man who committed suicide when the police responded to a call...

Gonzalez v. Owens Corning

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Product Liability
Affirming the denial of class certification in a putative class action brought by consumers in four states against Owens Corning for their sale of...

Paladino v. Newsome

Administrative Law, Civil Rights
Vacating the grant of summary judgment on a claim of excessive force brought by an inmate against a prison because there was a genuine issue of...

City Select Auto Sales Inc. v. David Randall Associates, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Communications Law
Affirming the entry of judgment in favor of the defense in a case complaining of unsolicited fax transmissions because the jury found the defendant...

US v. Douglas

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Reversing and remanding the conviction of a man relating to the distribution of cocaine and money laundering because the imposition of an enhancement...