“People view the courts as this establishment, but when you listen to oral histories … it's really about individual people coming together to make this happen," said Third Circuit librarian Melissa Bernstein. "The character of the court changes every time there's a new judge who comes on.”
August 15, 2024 at 01:59 PM
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Years before joining the federal bench, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. practiced personal injury law at a Philadelphia firm, putting in long hours and trying cases to help build the firm’s reputation.
In a 1996 interview two years before he died, Higginbotham recalled a $15,000 jury verdict he secured for a child who was hit by a driver going past a playground.
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Active judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1979. Seated (left to right): Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert, Chief Judge Collins J. Seitz and Judge Arlin M. Adams. Standing (left to right): Judge Leonard I. Garth, Judge James Hunter III, Judge John J. Gibbons, Judge Max Rosenn, Judge Joseph F. Weis Jr. and Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Courtesy photo
