UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS THIRD CIRCUIT

By Tyler Brown

BASIC INFO

Founded in 1891

Appeals from Districts of Delaware, New Jersey, East, Middle and West Districts of Pennsylvania and the US Virgin Islands

Active judges: 14

Chief Judge: Theodore A. McKee

Senior Judges: 10

Circuit Justice: Samuel Alito

(ca3.uscourts.gov )

MORE FACTS

Court is composed at the James A. Byrne Courthouse in Philly, Pennslyvania

Due to the jurisdiction over Delaware, the court handles many of the most significant commercial cases

More than half of publically traded companies in the united states incorporate are in Delaware.

CORFIELD V. CORYELL

1823 federal circuit case which upheld a NJ regulation forbidding non-residents from gathering oysters and clams against a challenge that NJ’s law violated the Article IV Privileges and Immunities Clause and that the New Jersey law regulated interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause

Case Decided by Justice Bushrod Washington

(wiki.colby.edu/display/go492/Corfield+v.+Coryell)

PISCATAWAY SCH. BD. V. TAXMAN

A case involving racial discrimination

In 1989, the school board of Piscataway, NJ had to lay off workers (which worked in reverse-seniority) However, the school board faced the issue that Sharon Taxman, a white teacher and Debra Williams, an African-American teacher, both started work on the same day, giving them equal seniority.

Taxman was laid off and complained to the EEOC saying that the board had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Third Circuit ruled in favour of Taxman but civil rights groups provided money to the school board so that a settlement could be reached when applied to the US Supreme Court

(Civilrights.org/monitor/vol9_no2_3/art1.html)

WORKS CITED

References

Corfield v. Coryell. (n.d.). - GO492. Retrieved March 19, 2014, from https://wiki.colby.edu/display/go492/Corfield+v.+Coryell

Piscataway School Board v. Taxman. (n.d.). www2.maxwell.syr.edu. Retrieved March 18, 2014, from http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/piscat.html

for the Third Circuit. (n.d.). Third Circuit. Retrieved March 17, 2014, from http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/