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OPINION OF THE COURT FISHER, Circuit Judge. This appeal presents the issue of whether a public employee terminated from employment because of an arrest, and then acquitted of the charges leading to that arrest in a criminal trial, is entitled to a name-clearing hearing as the remedy for a governmental entity’s deprivation of the employee’s due process libe

PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ________________ No. 21-1298 ________________ BRAD RUSH, As Administrator of the Estate of Jeffrey Dennis, Deceased. v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA; OFFICER RICHARD NICOLETTI, In his individual and official capacity, Officer Richard Nicoletti,

Argued March 9, 1926. Eleven separate suits in assumpsit were brought to the September Term of Court of Common Pleas No. 5 of Philadelphia County by employees of the Board of Inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prisons against the City of Philadelphia to recover the salary which each alleged to be due and unpaid for the first six months of the year 1924. Under a stipulation filed by counsel and an order of the court below, the cases were consolidated and combined as one case and so tried. T

MEMORANDUM OPINION Rufe, District Judge In his Second Amended Complaint, pro sePlaintiff David Burgos alleges that Defendants violated his constitutional rights by holding him in a filthy and overcrowded cell at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility (“CFCF”).1 Most Defendants have moved to dismiss, and Plaintiff now seeks leave to file a Third Amended Complaint. For the

MEMORANDUM EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ...883 II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND .. .883 III. PROCEDURAL HISTORY .. .885 IV. LEGAL STANDARD .. .886 V. DISCUSSION ...887 A. Plaintiff’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Claims.. .888 1. Count One: Retaliation...

Memorandum Opinión RUFE, J. Before the Court is Defendant City of Philadelphia’s Motion for Summary Judgment. For the reasons that follow, the motion is denied, as there are factual disputes regarding nearly every element of Plaintiffs claim, and Defendant has failed to put forward any compelling evidence or argument that it is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. I. BACKGROUND

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER JOYNER, DISTRICT JUDGE This § 1983 action is once again before this Court on Motion of the Plaintiffs to certify this matter as a class action pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 23. Specifically, Plaintiffs move to certify a class of Philadelphia landlords whose properties have been or will be liened by the Philadelphia Gas Works for unpaid gas services incurred by delinquent tenants. For th

• MEMORANDUM Dalzell, District Judge. I. Introduction We consider here the City of Philadelphia’s partial motion for summary judgment concerning plaintiffs Monell claim. Samir Coyett brings this action against all defendants pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and claims that his civil rights were violated when officers from the Philadelphia Police Department (“PPD”) alleg

MEMORANDUM KEARNEY, DISTRICT JUDGE In two incidents a year apart, Philadelphia police officers possibly violated the Fourth Amendment when encountering citizens either before or after the citizens captured police conduct on film. The citizens never told the police why they were capturing images of the police interacting with people they did not know. They were watching their police officers in action an

MEMORANDUM Schiller, District Judge. Philadelphia Police Officer James Boone shot and killed Michael Berry (“Berry”) in the early morning hours of Monday, August 27, 2012. Berry’s wife, acting on behalf of his estate, is now suing Officer Boone, the City of Philadelphia, and Officers Terry Mulvey and Thomas Bellon, who were also present at Berry’s death. All Defendants now move for summary judgment. The C

445 B.R. 450 (2010) In re PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPERS, LLC, et al., Debtors. No. 09-11204 Sr. United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. October 21, 2010. *452 Anne M. Aaronson, Dilworth Paxson LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC, Dilworth Paxson LLP, Proskauer Rose LLP. David F. Abernethy, Drinker Biddle &

OPINION OF THE COURT FUENTES, Circuit Judge: Kenyado Newsuan was standing in the street, naked, high on PCP, and yelling and flailing his arms. Philadelphia police officer Thomas Dempsey arrived on the scene and, without waiting for backup, ordered Newsuan to approach. What happened next is a matter of some dispute, but what happened at the end of the encounter is not: Newsuan attacked Dempsey, slammed hi

MEMORANDUM EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District. Judge. Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION.477 II. STANDARD OF REVIEW .479 III. MOOTNESS.480 IV. ARAMARK DEFENDANTS’MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT .482 A. State Action Analysis.482 B. Plaintiff s First Amendment Claims .483 1. Claims Against Aramark_.“.483 <

249 F.Supp.2d 563 (2003) Kraig GRAHAM, Plaintiff, v. Sylvester JOHNSON, Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, et al., Defendants. No. Civ. A. 02-7794. United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. March 5, 2003. *564 Tshaka LaFayette, LaFayette & Assoc, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiff. Gerald E. Waller

MEMORANDUM DALZELL, District Judge. Bruce Campbell, as Administrator for the estate of his son, Gregory C. Campbell (hereinafter “Campbell”), brings this action against defendant police officers and the City of Philadelphia for violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The suit arises out of an incident in August of 2006 when Philadelphia Police Officers Frank Luca and William Schlosser shot and killed C

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER JOYNER, Chief Judge. Before the Court is the Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment (ECF No. *66110). For the reasons set forth in this Memorandum, the Defendants’ Motion is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. I. BACKGROUND Officers David Richardson and Christopher Rommel are po

MEMORANDUM EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge. I. INTRODUCTION Hakim Ali Bryant (“Plaintiff’) brought this civil rights action against the City of Philadelphia, Police Officer Hoover (“Hoover”), and the City of Philadelphia Police Officers from the SWAT unit, Joseph Cooney, Manus Cassidy, Inocencio Amaro, Cyprian Scott, Sean Leatherberry, Erik Bullock, Todd Lewis, William McDonald, Robe

MEMORANDUM PRATTER, District Judge. Officer Yolaina Washington-Pope’s harrowing ordeal raises the question of whether an on-duty, in-uniform police officer, who raises his service weapon to his partner’s temple as their exchange of words in their police cruiser rapidly escalates, acts under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Although the facts of this case and Ms. Washington-P

778 F.Supp.2d 556 (2011) Michael MARCAVAGE, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 09-2477. United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. March 31, 2011. *560 L. Theodore Hoppe, Jr., Hoppe & Martin LLP, Kennett Square, PA, for Plaintiff. Genelle Franklin, City of Philadelphia Law De

747 F.Supp.2d 505 (2010) Jacque WHAUMBUSH, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 09-6066. United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. October 15, 2010. *509 Brian R. Mildenberg, David S. Mildenberg, Mildenberg & Stalbaum PC, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs. Benjamin