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Third Circuit· 4/12/2007

United States v. Wecht

Citations

  • 484 F.3d 194
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 8389
  • 2007 WL 1086308

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that a third party has standing to raise a right to receive information claim “as long as the third party can demonstrate that an individual subject to the [challenged restriction] would speak more freely if the [restriction] is lifted or modified”
  • finding that the Liteky standard was not met by a litany of bias allegations against a district judge, including that the judge accepted swaths of prosecution evidence without explanation and prejudged the case
  • criticizing a district judge for expressly relying on the Manual for Complex Litigation in a criminal trial and noting that it applies, by its own terms, to civil litigation
  • scheduling of a contempt hearing was not immediately appealable, but counsel could appeal any adverse future contempt rulings
  • denying a writ of mandamus ordering the judge’s disqualification when evidence of bias based on remarks, practices, and rulings
  • explaining that \under seal” means \the defense and public would not be able to view the filed papers or learn their contents” from the docket, but that the defendant still \could have disseminated the information to the public” absent a \protective order”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Fuentes, Fisher, Bright

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Cites

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