David J. Porter
How Judge Porter rules, drawn from 33 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Porter
David James Porter is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Appointed by President Donald J. Trump, Judge Porter received a commission on October 15, 2018.
Judge Porter's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Porter's own (checked October 11, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 11, 2026).
- Third Circuit Motions Practice ↗
- Motions to Exceed the Page or Word Limitations ↗
- Motions for Extensions of Time and Clarification of L.A.R. 110 ↗
- Vacating Option B for Filing of an Appendix ↗
- Reduced Number of Copies of Briefs Required ↗
- Stays in Immigration Cases ↗
- Submission of Audio and Video Files ↗
How Judge Porter decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Treats Congress's selection of a foreign-affairs policy and the President's designation of covered arms as a permissible division between legislative policy and executive detail.
“Through the AECA, Congress articulated a general policy—reducing the international arms trade in order to lessen regional conflict— and authorized the President to list the arms that should be subject to export restrictions”
Cautions
In Coates v. Ford Motor Co., he held that Coates could not use the malfunction theory’s more generous evidentiary standard because the airbag system was available for inspection; her remaining evidence did not create a genuine fact dispute.
“Because the allegedly defective product was available for inspection, Coates cannot avail herself of Section 3’s more generous evidentiary standard.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For these reasons, we will affirm the District Court’s judgment.”
“We will vacate the fee award.”
“For these reasons, we will affirm.”
“We will affirm the District Court’s order dismissing Bah’s action with prejudice.”
“We will affirm the District Court’s judgment imposing Rodriguez’s sentence.”
“We will therefore affirm the District Court’s judgment.”
“For the foregoing reasons, we will affirm the judgment of the District Court.”
“For these reasons, we will vacate the District Court’s order compelling production of the twelve Maigetter-Eastburn emails and remand for further proceedings.”
“We will affirm the District Court’s order.”
“The District Court correctly denied MicroBilt’s motion to compel because Hernandez fully complied with MicroBilt’s arbitration provision.”
“For the foregoing reasons, we will vacate the District Court’s order denying Melvin’s motion and remand for further proceedings.”
“We will therefore vacate Aguirre-Miron’s sentence and remand for resentencing.”
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