[1] Scirica was nominated by President Reagan on June 26, 1987, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert.

[1] His former law clerks include former United States Solicitor General Gregory G. Garre, Magistrate Judge Timothy R. Rice, and former White House counsel Dana Remus.

In 2008, Chief Justice John Roberts named Scirica to be chairman of the executive committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

He authored the unanimous opinion in the Winer Family Trust v. Queen private securities fraud class action.

[5] Scirica wrote the opinion for the unanimous Third Circuit panel affirming, for the most part, the convictions of Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly for their roles in the closure of Fort Lee access lanes to the George Washington Bridge for political reasons, in what came to be known as the Bridgegate scandal.