Leonard I. Garth

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit circuit Retired 2016 · served 1973–2016 Appointed by Richard Nixon (Republican) 27 signed orders read

Judge Garth no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

United States v. Leonard A. Pelullo
399 F.3d 197 · 2005-02-25
Appeal (appellant (government) / cross-appellant) Granted in part

“Because we conclude that the District Court erred in the threshold suppression determination prescribed by the Brady analysis, we will reverse the District Court’s grant of a new trial.”

Anderson Jude Okeke v. Gonzales
407 F.3d 585 · 2005-05-18
Petition for review (petitioner) Granted

“The Petition for Review will therefore be granted.”

United States v. Terrance Coles
437 F.3d 361 · 2006-02-09
Appeal (appellant) Granted

“Concluding that the police impermissibly created the very exigency which they claim permitted the warrantless search, we hold that the exigent circumstances exception to the warrant requirement is not applicable here.”

Vasiliy Ostapovich Romanishyn v. Attorney General
455 F.3d 175 · 2006-07-20
Petition for review (petitioner) Denied

“We will deny Mr. Romanishyn’s petition for review.”

United States v. Koller
207 F. App'x 216 · 2006-12-01
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“We will affirm.”

Santana Gonzalez v. Attorney General
506 F.3d 274 · 2007-10-22
Petition for review (petitioner) Granted

“We will grant her Petition.”

Pennsylvania Prison Society v. Cortes
508 F.3d 156 · 2007-11-05
Appeal (appellant) Moot / procedural

“we will vacate the March 13, 2006 order of the District Court and remand with directions to conduct further proceedings, as necessary, to determine whether any of the plaintiffs has standing and if not, to dismiss the complaint without prejudice.”

United States v. Cano
256 F. App'x 538 · 2007-11-30
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“we grant the motion to withdraw and deny the appeal.”

Shan Qin Hu v. Attorney General
278 F. App'x 230 · 2008-05-19
Petition for review (petitioner) Denied

“Therefore, we deny the petition for review.”

United States v. Hardwick
544 F.3d 565 · 2008-10-03
Appeal (appellant) Granted in part

“we will affirm the jury’s verdict as to all four defendants, and remand only for resentencing of Murray, Resto, and Hardwick consistent with the Justice Department policy memorandum.”

UPMC St. Margaret Hospital v. Sebelius
349 F. App'x 786 · 2009-10-21
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“The District Court correctly granted summary judgment in favor of appellee Secretary and against appellant UPMC, and we will affirm its judgment.”

United States v. Brooks
356 F. App'x 586 · 2009-12-15
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“For the reasons given above, we will affirm the judgment of the District Court.”

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A historical record

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