Third Circuit
Coverage of Third Circuit in the Nexus archive.
- Environmental groups brawl with New Jersey over future of interstate gas pipeline
Environmental groups National Resources Defense Council and New York-New Jersey Baywatch sued New Jersey regulators over the approval of Transco's Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, arguing the certification lacked proper environmental safeguards and public input. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection approved the project in 2025 after denying earlier applications due to insufficient environmental details and public need.
- Third Circuit greenlights Trump removal of exhibit on Washington’s slaves
The Third Circuit Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with altering an exhibit at the President’s House site in Philadelphia that detailed enslaved people held by George Washington and John Adams. The court ruled that the National Park Service had not yet finalized its replacement panels, which acknowledge slavery but are less critical of the presidents compared to the original exhibit.
- AI company argues its use of scraped Westlaw legal data was transformative
ROSS Intelligence, a defunct AI company, argued in a Third Circuit case that using 0.08% of Westlaw's headnotes to train its legal research AI was transformative, countering Thomson Reuters' copyright claims. A lower court ruled in favor of Reuters, but ROSS appeals, asserting its AI's ability to answer novel legal questions justifies fair use.