Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins,304 U.S. 64 (1938),was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that the United States does not have a general federal common law and that U.S. federal courts must apply state law,not federal law,to lawsuits between parties from different states that do not involve federal questions. In reaching this holding,the Court overturned almost a century of federal civil procedure case law,and established the foundation of the modern law of diversity jurisdiction.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is a federal trial court that sits in Pittsburgh,Erie,and Johnstown,Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. Appeals from this court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Kent Amos Jordan is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006.
Robert Neil Chatigny is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
John Gleeson is an American attorney and judge who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He is a member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Joseph Frank Bianco is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was formerly a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
David Louis Bunning is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Bunning is the son of former Republican Senator Jim Bunning,a Hall of Fame baseball pitcher who represented Kentucky in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2011.
Rubén Castillo is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In 1994,Castillo was the first person of Latino descent to be named a judge in the Northern District of Illinois,and in 2013 the first to become Chief Judge.
Gary Lee Lancaster was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Mary Agnes McLaughlin was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Vicki Lynn Miles-LaGrange is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first African-American woman to be sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.
John Garvan Murtha is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.
Stephanos Bibas is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench,Bibas was a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,where he also served as director of its Supreme Court clinic.
Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard,known professionally as Nina Pillard,is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2013 as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a judge,Pillard was a law professor at Georgetown University.
Gerald Austin McHugh Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Pamela Ann Harris is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to joining the federal bench,she was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,and visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and executive director of its Supreme Court Institute.
Susan Rose Paradise Baxter is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Peter Joseph Phipps is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
William Joseph Nardini is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
María del Rocio Antongiorgi-Jordán is an American attorney who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
