Judge’s Refusal To Suppress Evidence In Insurance Suit Upheld On Appeal

Mealey's (April 5, 2022, 12:38 PM EDT) -- SCRANTON, Pa. — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 1 ruled that a federal judge in Pennsylvania did not err in denying a defendants’ motion to suppress the admission of a thumb drive that contained the identifying information of more than 400 people for the purpose of filing federal income tax returns in support of insurance fraud and tax fraud charges against the man because the panel could not determine whether the judge lacked a substantial basis for ruling that probable cause existed to search all of a property connected to the man and the business for which he worked....