Richard Lowell Nygaard

Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Title

Judge

Appointed by

Ronald ReaganRepublican

Seat

CA30107

Nominated

May 25, 1988

Committee hearing

Aug. 10, 1988

Committee action

Reported (favorably)Oct. 5, 1988

Senate vote

Voice

Confirmed

Oct. 14, 1988

Commissioned

Oct. 17, 1988

ABA rating

Qualified

Senior status

July 9, 2005

Source Federal Judicial Center.

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

• June 13, 2025
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Michael Gorrio v. Francis
• Dec. 14, 2023
  opinion issued Authored the opinion in United States v. Shiheem Amos
• Oct. 26, 2023
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Scott Stouffer v. Union Railroad Co
• March 22, 2023
  panel identified Sat on the panel in United States v. Justyn Perez-Colon
• Feb. 10, 2023
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Jeremy Graber v. Michael Boresky
• Feb. 8, 2023
  panel identified Sat on the panel in William Burrell, Jr. v. Tom Staff
• Sept. 28, 2022
  panel identified Sat on the panel in New Jersey Bankers Association v. Attorney General New Jersey
• June 30, 2022
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Alexis Barradas Jacome v. Attorney General United States
• June 29, 2022
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Pyrotechnics Management Inc v. XFX Pyrotechnics LLC
• June 15, 2022
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Michael Rivera v. Kevin Monko
• Feb. 10, 2022
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Dante Burton v. William Schamp
• Feb. 10, 2022
  panel identified Sat on the panel in Dante Burton v. William Schamp

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

Opinions, concurrences and dissents attributed to this judge by the source record.