• United States v. Aguirre-Miron

    Publication Date: 2021-03-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 21-0284

    District court sentenced appellant under an incorrect sentencing guideline range due to improper grouping; the plain error did not upset the jury's verdict and could be fixed on remand. Vacated and remanded.

  • United States v. Aguirre-Miron

    Publication Date: 2021-03-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 21-0258

    District court erred in failing to group appellant's production counts with his receipt and possession counts in sentencing him for child-pornography crimes and the failure was plain error that affected appellant's substantial rights. Vacated and remanded.

  • United States v. Melvin

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 20-1158

    Defendant appealed from the district court's denial of his motion for early termination of his supervised release.

  • M.S. v. Susquehanna Twp. Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-17
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 20-0888

    District court properly granted summary judgment in favor of school district in student's title IX hostile educational environment private action based on her affair with assistant school principal because no appropriate person had actual knowledge of title IX discrimination since assistant principal's knowledge of his own wrongdoing was irrelevant to school district's actual knowledge of the sexual harassment. Affirmed.

  • United States v. Torres

    Publication Date: 2020-06-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 20-0644

    Defendant challenged his conviction for felon in possession of a firearm and his enhanced sentence under the armed career criminal act and court found defendant's stop was supported by reasonable suspicion, officer conducted a valid investigatory stop to ensure officer and community safety and defendant's drug conspiracy conviction counted as an ACCA predicate offense since it was distinct in time from the underlying substantive offenses. Affirmed.

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  • United States v. Torres

    Publication Date: 2020-06-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 20-0644

    Defendant challenged his conviction for felon in possession of a firearm and his enhanced sentence under the armed career criminal act and court found defendant's stop was supported by reasonable suspicion, officer conducted a valid investigatory stop to ensure officer and community safety and defendant's drug conspiracy conviction counted as an ACCA predicate offense since it was distinct in time from the underlying substantive offenses. Affirmed.

  • Darrington v. Milton Hershey Sch.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-18
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 20-0503

    Former employees were obligated to arbitrate discrimination and retaliation claims where their union agreed in a CBA to waive the right to bring a lawsuit regarding any matters encompassed by the CBA's grievance procedures. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.

  • United States v. Folk

    Publication Date: 2020-04-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 20-0416

    Appellant filed a §2255 motion asserting sentencing court used an incorrect career-offender enhancement in sentencing him and court found an incorrect career-offender enhancement under the advisory guidelines was not cognizable under §2255 because it was not a fundamental defect that inherently resulted in a complete miscarriage of justice. Motion denied.

  • Thomas v. Tice

    Publication Date: 2019-11-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 19-1393

    District court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of defendants in inmate's eighth amendment challenge to his conditions of confinement in a dry cell as well as the duration of his confinement and court found there was no evidence that program review committee participated in or had actual knowledge of the conditions of inmate's confinement but PCR did not present evidence of any penological justification for inmate's continued confinement after the initial four days. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

  • Guerra v. Consol. Rail Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-09-02
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Porter
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    Case Number: 19-1031

    Filing deadline under the Federal Railway Safety Act was merely a claim-processing limitation and was not a jurisdictional bar that would deprive the courts of jurisdiction to hear an untimely claim. Order of the district court affirmed on alternative grounds.