Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve the nomination of Judge Shwartz to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. That nomination can now be taken up by the full...

Haybarger v. Lawrence County Adult Probation & Parole, 667 F.3d 408 (3d Cir. 2012). Plaintiff Debra Haybarger worked for defendant, an agency of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. Plaintiff has several...

Bull v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 665 F.3d 68 (3d Cir. 2012). "After declaring a mistrial, the District Court dismissed Laureen Bull's state-law employment discrimination case as a sanction for failing to...

On Friday, the same day that he held his promised second meeting with Judge Shwartz, Senator Menendez announced that he was now supporting her nomination to the Third Circuit Court...

It is being reported that Senator Menendez has agreed to meet again with Judge Shwartz, in connection with President Obama's nomination of Judge Shwartz to the Third Circuit Court of...

In an order entered yesterday and issued per curiam, on behalf of the entire Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Judge McKee directed that "a three-judge Standing Motions Panel is hereby...

In October, President Obama nominated Judge Shwartz to a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Senator Lautenberg promptly hailed that nomination. Senator Menendez did not. Today, major newspapers...

Last week's decision in the Diamond Antitrust case, where an en banc Third Circuit undid a 2-1 panel decision in which a district judge, sitting by designation, was one of the members of...

Sullivan v. DB Investments, Inc., 667 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 2011). By a 7-2 vote, the Third Circuit, sitting en banc, disagreed with a panel decision (613 F.3d 134 (3d Cir. 2010)), vacated...

US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, 663 F.3d 671 (3d Cir. 2011). After defendant McCutchen suffered a serious auto accident, a benefit plan administered by plaintiff US Airways paid him nearly $67,000 for his...