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14 unusual facts about United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit


Apple Computer, Inc. v. Mackintosh Computers Ltd.

Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., 714 F.2d 1240 (3d Cir. 1983), a similar case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which includes Delaware, which is the state of incorporation for many publicly held companies, has given greater weight to the anti-waiver provisions of the Securities Exchange Act, although it has not completely ignored these agreements in considering all facts and circumstances of a transaction.

David Desmond

He is a grandson of the real estate developer Fred Trump; the son of Maryanne Trump Barry, who is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; and the nephew of Donald Trump.

Francis Lund Van Dusen

On January 16, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Van Dusen for elevation to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by James Cullen Ganey.

Joseph F. Weis, Jr.

On February 13, 1973, Nixon nominated Weis for elevation to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to a seat vacated by Abraham Lincoln Freedman.

(born March 12, 1923) is a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Max Rosenn

Max Rosenn (February 4, 1910 – February 7, 2006) was a United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970 to 2006.

On September 3, 1970, Rosenn was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by David Henry Stahl.

North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue

On December 12, 2011, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the squad's hiring policy discriminated against African-Americans, because it only accepted residents of local towns, who are predominantly Latino and Caucasian.

Steel strike of 1959

The union appealed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, and lost again on October 27.

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

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Cases brought in the District are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

The court is under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

Warren Hills High School

The student eventually filed a case that led to a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.


Arlin M. Adams

On September 22, 1969, President Richard Nixon nominated Adams to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that had been vacated by the decision by Judge Harry Ellis Kalodner to take senior status.

Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union

The Supreme Court of the United States decided the case, which began in 1999, and found that, contra the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, "the Child Online Protection Act COPA's reliance on community standards to identify 'material that is harmful to minors' does not by itself render the statute substantially overbroad for purposes of the First Amendment" (majority opinion).

Jeff Lord

He is the author of The Borking Rebellion, about the confirmation of Federal Judge D. Brooks Smith.

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Two names initially came up as potential nominees: Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Harvard Law School Professor Paul A. Freund.

John William Wallace

While librarian to the Law Association of Philadelphia, he compiled three volumes of decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which sat in that city.

Kathleen Neal Cleaver

After graduating, Cleaver worked for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and followed this with numerous jobs including: law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta, visiting faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, the Graduate School of Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College.

Leo E. Strine, Jr.

He clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and for Chief Judge John F. Gerry of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Louis Manna

He was also suspected but never convicted of placing murder contracts on U.S. Attorney Samuel Alito, Assistant United States Attorney Michael Chertoff and United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Maryanne Trump Barry, the sister of Donald Trump.

Lyndon B. Johnson judicial appointment controversies

In 1964, Johnson considered nominating either noted civil rights lawyer Bernard Segal or William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that had been created by the death of Herbert Funk Goodrich.

Thomas Hardiman

Thomas Michael Hardiman (born July 8, 1965 in Winchester, Massachusetts) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Thomas Newman O'Neill, Jr.

He was a law clerk to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit from 1953 to 1954, and to Justice Harold H. Burton, Supreme Court of the United States from 1954 to 1955.