all - Opinion Summaries

SMITH v. CARPENTER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law
The district court properly determined that the jury could weigh the absence of adverse medical effects in assessing the objective sufficiency of a...

TRIFAX CORP. v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA

Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
A government contractor could not demonstrate broad preclusion from government contracting, thus a claim alleging that the District of Columbia...

BANKS v. HORN

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Mills v. Maryland, 486 U.S. 367 (1988), did not announce a new rule of constitutional law for purposes of retroactivity, thus application of Mills on...

UNITED ARTISTS THEATRE CIRCUIT, INC. v. TOWNSHIP OF WARRINGTON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Government Law
The Supreme Court's decision in County of Sacramento v. Lewis, 523 U.S. 833 (1998), has superseded prior 3rd Circuit decisions holding that a...

PIERCE COUNTY v. GUILLEN

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation
An evidentiary privilege, 23 U.S.C. section 409, which protects information related to certain federal highway safety programs from discovery or...

SATTAZAHN v. PENNSYLVANIA

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
There was no Double Jeopardy bar to the state of Pennsylvania's seeking the death penalty on re-trial, where a defendant convicted of murder and...

ZALEWSKA v. COUNTY OF SULLIVAN

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
A municipal transit authority's dress code, which mandates that all employees wear pants as part of a driver's uniform, is not an unconstitutional...

SEVENCAN v. HERBERT

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The trial court's refusal to except defendant's wife from a properly entered limited courtroom closure order did not violate his Sixth Amendment...

US v. WILSON

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
A statute prohibiting a felon from possessing a firearm (18 U.S.C. section 922) does not violate the Second Amendment.

LANE v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The district court appropriately denied the state of Tennessee's motion to dismiss an action brought by disabled persons seeking to vindicate their...