Thorpe v. Borough of Jim Thorpe, 770 F.3d 255 (3d Cir. 2014). Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. He won Olympic medals in 1912...
Flintkote Company v. Aviva PLC, 769 F.3d 215 (3d Cir. 2014). Efforts to force arbitration on parties who did not agree to it continue. In this case, however, the Third...
Freidrich v. Davis, 767 F.3d 374 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiff and defendant were both passengers on a plane from Philadelphia to Germany. Plaintiff alleged that, during the flight, defendant, while...
Grandalski v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., 767 F.3d 175 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiffs filed a putative class action in which they alleged that defendant, a company that performs medical lab tests,...
Douglass v. Convergent Outsourcing, 765 F.3d 299 (3d Cir. 2014). The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692f(8) ("FDCPA"), forbids debt collectors from putting on the envelopes of debt...
Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals,, Inc., 765 F.3d 205 (3d Cir. 2014). Plaintiff Ferring and defendant Watson (now known as Actavis, Inc.) are competing pharmaceutical companies. Each company markets...
The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States has proposed amendments to various sets of federal procedural rules. The entire set of...
Dwyer v. Cappell, 762 F.3d 275 (3d Cir. 2014). Andrew Dwyer is a lawyer who handles plaintiffs' employment law litigation. Evidently, some judges have said favorable things about him in...
Lupyan v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc., 761 F.3d 314 (3d Cir. 2014). Even in these days of electronic filing, Twitter, Facebook, and other electronic means of communicating, some communications still go...
Opalinski v. Robert Half Int'l Inc., 761 F.3d 314 (3d Cir. 2014). In this case under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §201 et seq. ("FLSA"), plaintiffs signed employment agreements...