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City of Philadelphia v. Department of the Interior (2026)
City of Philadelphia v. Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, No. 26-1348 (3d Cir. June 18, 2026) (precedential), on appeal from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, D.C. No. 2:26-cv-00434. Concerns the President's House / Independence Hall interpretive panels on slavery.
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- Record
- city-of-philadelphia-v-doi-2026
- Type
- archive
- Trust tier
- A
- Status
- published
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The Independence Hall panel case. Plaintiff is the City of Philadelphia, not the National Parks Conservation Association. Third Circuit docket 26-1348, verified via the CourtListener API on 2026-07-09.
Split out of npca-v-interior (renamed 2026-07-09 from national-parks-conservation-assoc-v-trump-2026) on 2026-07-09, which had merged the two cases under one caption (Apollo ruling 2026-07-08).
Read in full 2026-09-14: the Third Circuit’s precedential opinion, argued June 2, 2026, filed June 18, 2026, before Hardiman, Restrepo and Phipps, opinion by Hardiman, no separate writing. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe. The court held that “the District Court lacked jurisdiction over Counts II through V, so we will vacate its preliminary injunction,” remanded with instructions to dismiss those counts, and left Count I to the district court. It also held that “the City does not have any statutory, property, or contractual rights that empower it to curate the exhibits in the President’s House.”
Reported, not read: the city’s August 3, 2026 rehearing petition and its denial (6abc, September 4, 2026), and the installation of replacement panels on July 15, 2026 (NBC10, August 6, 2026).
Provenance
- Creator
- City of Philadelphia
- Published
- 2026
- Accessed
- 2026-09-14
- External record
- https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/261348p.pdf
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