United States v. Keenan Quinn

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Decided: July 10, 2012
• Docket: 11-1733
• Status: Published

Opinion

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

No. 11-1733

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v.

KEENAN DANAN QUINN,

Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Crim. No. 2-09-cr-00720-002) District Judge: Hon. Petrese B. Tucker

Before: McKEE, Chief Judge, SLOVITER, SCIRICA, RENDELL, AMBRO, FUENTES, SMITH , FISHER, CHAGARES, JORDAN, HARDIMAN, GREENAWAY, JR. and VANASKIE, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

Pursuant to Third Circuit IOP 9.2, it is hereby ORDERED that the above-

captioned case is listed en banc at the convenience of the Court, to enable the Court to

reconsider the “effective defense theory of judicial immunity” doctrine first established

by this Court in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Smith, 615 F.2d 964 (3d Cir. 1980).

The parties are directed to electronically file supplemental briefs addressing this

issue as follows:

Appellant’s supplemental brief shall be filed within 30 days from the date of this order and shall not exceed 15 pages or 7, 000 words;

1 Appellee’s brief shall be filed within 30 days from the date of filing of appellant’s supplemental brief and shall not exceed 15 pages or 7, 000 words; Appellant’s reply brief shall be filed within 14 days from the date of filing appellee’s brief and shall not exceed 7 pages or 3,500 words.

The parties shall file 30 hard copies of the supplemental briefs.

In addition, the parties are hereby O R D E R E D to provide the Clerk within 14 days

from the date of this order additional 30 hard copies of the briefs and 16 copies of the

appendices previously filed in this appeal.

BY THE COURT:

/s/ Theodore A. McKee Chief Judge

Dated: July 10, 2012

Tnh/cc: David L. Axelrod, Esq. Edward C. Meehan, Jr., Esq.