The court rejected environmental groups' challenge to Pennsylvania water permits for a Transco pipeline and held that a federal standard governs review of such state decisions.
A 2-1 panel held that a worker's estate did not plausibly plead that FirstEnergy retained control over the contractor whose employee fell from a collapsing catwalk.
The Court of Appeals said the trial court never explained why it rejected a West Virginia firm's jurisdiction challenge and a bid to send the dispute to FINRA arbitration.
The en banc court affirmed a judgment for Edward Williams, finding no historical tradition that supports disarming him over early-2000s DUI offenses.
The court held the appeal moot under the Bankruptcy Code because Johnson & Johnson bought the rights in good faith and the insurers never obtained a stay of the sale.
An insurer owed $8.6 million by a company that lost its only client, Amazon, cannot collect from the family that owned the business, a federal appeals panel ruled.
Deciding the question for the first time, the court sided with Sandoz on a briefing rule while vacating its $61.6 million contract award against United Therapeutics.
The court found UTC's patent settlement with Sandoz ambiguous on cartridge supply and sent the contract claim to trial, while upholding the dismissal of antitrust claims.
The appeals court held that a state enforcement statute lacks Rule 23's defining features, so CAFA jurisdiction never attached.
A federal court that dismisses a case for lack of Article III jurisdiction cannot adjudicate a contract-based fee request and must dismiss it outright.
The panel affirmed in part, denied cross-appeals, and remanded after finding no due-process violation in the detective's charges and reducing a $250,000 punitive award against the officer to $12,000 based on the 4:1 ratio marker.
The court affirmed judgment for RTI Restoration Technologies and Industrial Maintenance Industries, holding that a pension fund’s duty to issue a withdrawal-liability notice and demand “as soon as practicable” is an element of its claim that a court may decide without prior arbitration.
Over the dissent of five judges, the full court leaves in place a panel ruling that the Equal Access to Justice Act waives sovereign immunity for attorney fees in habeas challenges to immigration detention, with dissenting judges warning the decision conflicts with circuit precedent and invites abuse.
A Third Circuit panel said Dr. Norman Wang can press key defamation and retaliation claims over the fallout from his article criticizing race-conscious policies in medical training.
The appeals court said Robert Lynn failed to show that Bank of New York Mellon’s stated reasons for eliminating his role masked race discrimination or retaliation.
The Third Circuit said a firearm with one illegible serial number can trigger a four-level Guidelines enhancement even if another serial number on the gun remains readable.