Anthony Joseph Scirica
How Judge Scirica rules, drawn from 7 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Scirica left this court for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Scirica
Anthony Joseph Scirica was a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Judge Scirica received a commission on September 18, 1984. Judge Scirica left the court on September 11, 1987 on appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
How Judge Scirica decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
He enforced a statutory claim deadline despite sympathetic equities when controlling precedent left the bankruptcy court no discretion to extend it.
“Although in a case such as this where strict adherence to the six month time limit might appear severe, the time limitation must stand.”
He treated administrative exhaustion as the required first forum when the civil-service process could address the constitutional claim and develop the record.
“Finding that plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, I grant the defendants’ motion.”
Procedural preferences
He would not test the sufficiency of grand-jury evidence through a dismissal motion after an indictment had issued.
“Once a grand jury indicts, no inquiry may be made concerning the sufficiency of the evidence it considered.”
Cautions
A federal civil-rights claim against private litigants requires more than their successful use of a state judicial process.
“merely resorting to the courts and being on the winning side of a lawsuit does not make a party a co-conspirator or a joint actor with a judge.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the foregoing reasons, the appeal is denied and the Order of the bankruptcy judge is affirmed.”
“Since I have found that the FTCA does not apply to this action and that § 1089(f) does not provide immunity to military medical personnel which requires the substitution of the United States as a party, I will dismiss this matter.”
“Finding that plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, I grant the defendants’ motion.”
“On the basis of the following findings of fact and conclusions of law, I conclude that plaintiff’s motion should be denied.”
“because he has failed to attempt to exhaust his contractual remedies and because of the bar of the statute of limitations, I must grant both defendant’s motions for summary judgment.”
“For the reasons stated above, I grant defendant family members’ motion for failure to state a claim.”
“I further dismiss Judge Wood from this lawsuit as an improper party because plaintiff has failed to allege an Article III case or controversy against the judge.”
“For the reasons stated, defendants’ motions to dismiss the indictment are denied.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No assigned-judge docket cohort could be enumerated for the closed district tenure, so no caseload mix or duration statistic is reported.
A historical record
Judge Scirica left this court for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.