Acheson was appointed as a circuit judge for the ThirdCircuit in 1891 by Benjamin Harrison.
Aside from their duties on the Commerce Court, the judges of the Commerce Court also acted as at-large appellate judges, able to be assigned by the Chief Justice of the UnitedStates to whichever circuit most needed help.
Unlike the Chief Justice of the UnitedStates, a Chief Judge returns to active service after the expiration of his or her term and does not create a vacancy on the bench by the fact of his or her promotion.
United Artists claims that its failure to construct the road improvement was a mere pretext for the Township's refusal to support its theater proposal and that this refusal was actually motivated by the Township's desire to obtain an impact fee from Goodman and Regency Cinema.
United Artists claims that this statement "constitutes a conclusive determination that may not be disturbed under the law of the case doctrine." Br.
In the prior appeal, this Court expressly affirmed the District Court's qualified immunity analysis of the supervisors as a whole, and found the only error to be the District Court's failure to apply that same analysis to the supervisors individually.