Fifth Circuit Rules FCC Unlawfully Created Universal Service Fund's Administrator
A Fifth Circuit panel vacated the FCC's fourth-quarter 2025 universal service contribution factor, holding the agency created USAC without the authorization a 1945 law requires.
Ninth Circuit Keeps Sliding-Scale Injunction Test Over 10-Judge Dissent
The court declined to rehear a disability case; Judge Bress and nine colleagues said its 'serious questions' test conflicts with Winter and Starbucks.
Fourth Circuit Revives Virginia School Boards' Suits Over Title IX 'High-Risk' Label
A divided panel held the Tucker Act did not require dismissal of Fairfax County and Arlington challenges to the Education Department's enforcement of Title IX.
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California Appeals Court Upholds Santa Clara County's Emergency Sales-Tax Election
The Sixth District gave Proposition 218's emergency exception its ordinary meaning and deferred to the county board's findings on federal funding cuts.
Tenth Circuit Upholds EPA Approval of Oklahoma Environmental Authority in Indian Country
A divided panel held that a 2005 highway-bill rider letting Oklahoma run environmental programs in Indian country did not expire in 2009 and bars EPA-imposed conditions.
Sixth Circuit Lets TVA Keep Building $2.5 Billion Gas Plant During NEPA Appeal
A Sixth Circuit panel paused a ruling that voided TVA's approval of its Kingston gas plant, finding the agency likely to win on alternatives, precommitment and remedy.
Fifth Circuit Upholds Texas Ban on Chinese-Owned Firms' Access to Power Grid
The court held that federal foreign-investment review does not preempt a Texas law that blocked a Chinese-owned developer from connecting a solar project to the grid.
Fifth Circuit Orders New Trial After Judge Relied on Juror's News Interview
A two-judge quorum vacated a verdict for a Louisiana parish in a free-speech suit, citing repeated defense misconduct and the judge's use of a juror's press remarks.
Fifth Circuit Revives RICO Class Action Over Restaurant's Mislabeled Imported Fish
A diner who paid for premium local snapper at a restaurant that admitted selling over 29 tons of imported frozen fish as local premium species has plausibly alleged an injury in fact, the court held.
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Eleventh Circuit Lifts Block on Georgia Law Limiting Minors' Social-Media Accounts
A federal appeals court vacated an injunction against Georgia's SB 351, holding that NetChoice failed to meet its burden in a facial First Amendment challenge.
Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Voting Law for Citizens Who Never Lived in U.S.
The court rejected an RNC challenge to a 2005 voter law but held, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, that a county candidate had standing to sue.
California Court Rejects Oil Operator's Bid to Skip Environmental Review of New Wells
The Fifth District reversed a writ ordering CalGEM to exempt up to 12 Kern County wastewater injection wells from CEQA and declared a grandfathering rule invalid.
Nebraska Supreme Court Blocks GM From Terminating Seward Chevrolet and GMC Dealer
The court held that good cause to end a car dealer's franchise is judged when the state board decides, so a dealer's gains during a four-year wait counted.
Alabama Supreme Court Orders Ruling on Honeywell Venue Bid Before Merits Discovery
A divided court told a Monroe County judge to vacate an order requiring seven depositions and to rule first on a bid to send a contract fight to New York.
Texas Supreme Court Lets Urban Air Affiliates Force Arbitration of Child's Injury Suit
Companies and individuals named as "protected parties" in a release a mother signed at a Beaumont trampoline park may enforce its arbitration clause, the court held.
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N.Y. Appeals Court Upholds Win for Funds Suing Chinese Developer Over Defaulted Notes
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