{"id":157539,"date":"2026-07-20T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=157539"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:47:25","slug":"after-full-bench-sounds-off-how-much-did-3rd-circuit-reveal-of-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/20\/after-full-bench-sounds-off-how-much-did-3rd-circuit-reveal-of-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"After Full Bench Sounds Off, How Much Did 3rd Circuit Reveal of Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Hellman, a law professor who studies federal appeals courts, said an en banc ruling in an assault weapons case demonstrates that litigators should not assume a judge’s party affiliation will predict case outcomes in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Arthur Hellman, a law professor who studies federal appeals courts, said an en banc ruling in an assault weapons case demonstrates that litigators should not assume a judge’s party affiliation will predict case outcomes in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Arthur Hellman, a law professor who studies federal appeals courts, said an en banc ruling in an assault weapons case demonstrates that litigators should not assume a judge’s party affiliation will predict case outcomes in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arthur Hellman, a law professor who studies federal appeals courts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/legal-news-PvpfGe.jpg?fit=769%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157543,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157539\/revisions\/157543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}