PHILADELPHIA – A panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed the ruling of a lower federal court, which stated that a pair of professional malpractice cases were properly dismissed due to their not containing certificates of merit.
Pa. man can be re-tried on charges he set 1995 blaze that killed 3 firefighters, U.S. court says
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A Pennsylvania man who was serving three consecutive life prison terms for the deaths of three firefighters in a 1995 blaze that investigators said he deliberately ignited can be retried after his initial convictions were overturned, a federal appeals court has ruled.
In making that call, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit rejected Gregory Brown’s argument that trying him again on murder and arson charges would violate the double jeopardy prohibition of the U.S. Constitution.
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A federal appellate court said Tuesday that prosecutors can retry a man whose conviction in the 1995 deaths of three firefighters in the East Hills was overturned.
In a 19-page opinion, the three judge-panel from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the federal retrial of Gregory Brown Jr., on a single charge of malicious destruction of property by fire resulting in death, does not violate his double jeopardy rights.
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PHILADELPHIA – A panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed a trial court decision which found that Carnegie Mellon University did not discriminate against a master’s degree student afflicted with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, when he failed out of the school’s computer science program.
On March 5, Third Circuit judges L. Felipe Restrepo, Stephanos Bibas and David J. Porter ruled to uphold a decision from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, in favor of Carnegie Mellon and against plaintiff Sanchit Jain.
Jain, who has ADHD, was a master’s student in the computer science program at Carnegie Mellon. When he enrolled in 2017, he sought disability accommodations, like flexible due dates for his homework, and the school approved them all.