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 Piscataway School Board v. Taxman. (n.d.). www2.maxwell.syr.edu. Retrieved March 18, 2014, from for the Third Circuit. (n.d.). Third Circuit. Retrieved March 17, 2014, from