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U.S. Senate confirms Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz for Third Circuit

April 11, 2013 9:15 AM
By Jon Campisi

United States Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz this week was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 64-34 vote to serve on the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Shwartz, a Paterson, N.J. native who has served as a magistrate judge at … Read More »

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Trucking co. being sued by Phila. water reservoir guard seeks to transfer matter to federal court

April 4, 2013 5:13 PM
By Jon Campisi

Lawyers representing a West Virginia commercial trucking company being sued by a City of Philadelphia worker over injuries he allegedly sustained as a result of coming into contact with a haul of lime have petitioned a federal judge to hear … Read More »

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Gas rig wrongful death claim transferred out of Phila. and into Middle District of Pa.

April 3, 2013 7:07 AM
By Jon Campisi

A federal judge sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied a bid by an out- of-state plaintiff to remand her wrongful death case to the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, where it had originally been filed, ruling that diversity … Read More »

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