A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a family's bid to force action on employment-based immigrant visa applications, finding the alleged delay did not state an unreasonable-delay claim under D.C. Circuit precedent.
A District of Columbia federal judge adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation and ordered a hearing officer to further explain parts of an IDEA decision involving extended school year services and compensatory education.
A published Fourth Circuit panel said a West Virginia marijuana-manufacturing conviction could count as a controlled substance offense under the sentencing guidelines despite the court's earlier Campbell ruling.
A published Fourth Circuit panel said Abitron changed the Lanham Act analysis but did not spare a Dutch software company from a preliminary injunction in a cross-border trademark and trade secrets fight.
A Fourth Circuit panel said the Supreme Court's Abitron trademark ruling did not undo an injunction against Dutch company DMARC Advisor because the record showed conduct directed at U.S. customers, not just overseas activity with domestic effects.
The panel affirmed a 15-year methamphetamine sentence, holding that the state-law label on an expungement does not decide whether a prior conviction counts under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.
A D.C. federal judge denied WPATH’s emergency bid to block the FTC from pursuing a separate enforcement suit in Texas, saying the group had not shown a threat to the court’s prior injunction or irreparable harm.
A D.C. federal magistrate judge said the adult-film copyright plaintiff may seek identifying information for a John Doe internet subscriber tied to alleged BitTorrent infringement.
A D.C. federal judge denied a former FAA engineer's attempts to revive previously dismissed claims while granting in part and denying in part the government's latest bid to end his pro se employment suit.
A D.C. federal judge granted the SBA administrator summary judgment in a former employee's FLSA suit over a small overtime dispute tied to the 2018 government shutdown.
The panel affirmed denials for two defendants seeking sentence cuts based on nonretroactive Section 924(c) amendments, applying the Supreme Court's new Rutherford ruling.
The panel said 1199 SEIU and home healthcare employers could not use a 2015 arbitration agreement to bind workers who had already left their jobs without consent.
The Second Circuit said former 1199 SEIU-represented home healthcare workers who left before a 2015 arbitration agreement are not bound by wage-and-hour arbitration awards confirmed in federal court.
The justices adopted an amendment to the federal hearsay rule that is slated to take effect Dec. 1, 2026, absent congressional action.
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the solicitor general to weigh in on two pending petitions and sent three cases back to federal appeals courts in a wide-ranging order list.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from a Supreme Court order barring an Indiana prisoner from future noncriminal in forma pauperis petitions, warning that the court's frequent-filer sanction is being applied too broadly to incarcerated litigants.
The panel said would-be intervenors could not plausibly defend Texas provisions giving in-state tuition access to students not lawfully present when out-of-state U.S. citizens did not receive the same benefit.
The U.S. Supreme Court said the Fourth Circuit failed to give proper AEDPA deference to a Maryland appellate ruling that rejected a convicted man's Brady materiality claim.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the court should have taken up whether indigent prisoners suing together must each pay a full federal filing fee.
The Fifth Circuit said neighbors challenging a New Orleans hospital’s relocated helipad must wait for final judgment before appealing a ruling that blocked their requested permanent injunction.
The Fifth Circuit said a Louisiana LLC that dissolved before suing Vendera and BOKF lacked capacity to bring its trade secrets and contract claims, but sent a sealing order back for a public-access analysis.
The justice dissented from the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case asking when supervised-release violations can add prison time beyond the statutory maximum for the original crime.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson, said the Supreme Court should have taken up James Skinner's case because his codefendant won relief over overlapping Brady evidence.
Judge Richard J. Leon said the plaintiffs did not oppose WMATA's partial dismissal bid and had not pleaded serious, verifiable emotional distress.
The Supreme Court ordered the Fifth Circuit to reconsider Grande Communications' dispute with UMG Recordings in light of the justices' Cox Communications ruling, while also issuing several other grant-vacate-remand orders.
The U.S. Supreme Court said a D.C. appellate court wrongly parsed reasonable suspicion factor by factor when it tossed a juvenile adjudication tied to a late-night vehicle stop.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review whether the Department of Labor can adjudicate monetary-remedy proceedings against employers accused of violating employment terms for H-2A and corresponding domestic workers.
A federal judge said Paul Bishop's latest Title VII complaint cleared the low pleading bar after he alleged the Agriculture Department deemed him qualified but chose a white female candidate instead.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari after Michael Lairy received relief from a prison term Justice Sonia Sotomayor said exceeded the lawful maximum by five years.
The panel upheld convictions and sentences for three defendants while a concurrence warned that a phone-extraction PowerPoint and gang testimony pushed evidentiary limits.
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated an Eleventh Circuit decision against Florida death row prisoner Gary Whitton, saying the appeals court relied on DNA evidence the trial jury never heard when assessing the effect of allegedly false informant testimony.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Mississippi's rule for proving prejudice from counsel's mishandling of a Batson challenge is likely wrong, but the case was not a proper vehicle for review.
The Supreme Court declined to hear two disputes that Justice Samuel Alito said warranted review, including a student-speech fight over anti-abortion club flyers and an Alabama capital case involving a prosecutor's closing argument.
The Seventh Circuit held that an Illinois man shot with nonlethal police rounds during a standoff failed to identify clearly established law defeating qualified immunity.
Justice Neil Gorsuch said the Supreme Court should soon reconsider a century-old precedent holding that the Seventh Amendment civil jury trial right does not bind the states.
The justices added three cases to their merits docket while putting off a mootness request in Little v. Hecox until oral argument.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied review in a case asking it to reconsider United States v. Kagama, drawing a dissent from Justice Neil Gorsuch that attacked federal Indian-law plenary power doctrine.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a challenge to a New Orleans jail-construction order, prompting a dissent that said lower courts misapplied the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
The justices reversed a Louisiana appellate ruling that applied a state public-health emergency immunity statute to defeat federal claims against a physical therapy provider.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review whether the Mississippi Supreme Court unreasonably found that a petitioner waived his chance to rebut prosecutors’ race-neutral explanations for peremptory strikes against four Black jurors.
The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in several matters, including a Cisco case limited to two questions and consolidated FCC-related petitions set for one hour of argument.
The justices agreed to hear four cases, including a Monsanto dispute over whether federal pesticide law preempts a label-based failure-to-warn claim when EPA has not required the warning.
The administrative stay remains in place until May 11 while a response to GenBioPro's application is due May 7.
Justice Samuel Alito issued an administrative stay of a Fifth Circuit order while the Supreme Court awaits a response to Danco Laboratories' application.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a recall motion in two pending Callais matters and appointed a Washington lawyer to argue a sentencing-guidelines deference issue in Beaird v. United States.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. stayed a D.C. Circuit mandate involving Catherine Herridge while the Supreme Court considers a stay application.
A Fourth Circuit panel said a Virginia prisoner's Free Exercise damages claim must return to district court for a Turner analysis after officials denied him a diet that met both his Ramadan fasting and kosher-supervision beliefs.
A published Fourth Circuit panel revived key parts of a challenge to South Carolina's race-related curriculum budget proviso, sending standing questions and an author's book-removal claim back to the district court.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a wire fraud and money laundering conviction, holding that using a defendant’s own discovery production as one circumstance to authenticate incriminating messages did not violate his right to testify.
The panel said a Southern District of Texas plea agreement did not block a later Central District of Illinois wire fraud conspiracy prosecution.
The Seventh Circuit rejected the government’s bid to dismiss two noncitizens’ petitions as untimely, holding they can invoke equitable tolling after the U.S. Supreme Court reset the filing clock for withholding-only proceedings.
A Seventh Circuit panel held that a Southern District of Texas plea agreement with Babajide Adefusi bound only that U.S. Attorney's Office, leaving federal prosecutors in Illinois free to pursue a later wire fraud conspiracy case.
The panel said an Illinois trooper's motives could matter when a commercial-trucking inspection is used to justify a warrantless stop.
The panel affirmed the defeat of Becky Spengler's Title VII and equal protection claims but said her public-employee compelled-belief theory was sufficiently pleaded.
The U.S. Supreme Court partly granted a request for divided argument and expanded time while denying an amici bid to take part.
The justices asked the parties to address how a disputed statutory phrase affects 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3) before acting on a stay request.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor recalled and stayed a Second Circuit mandate while the Supreme Court considers an application from a class representative for judgment creditors of the Ferdinand Marcos estate.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Dina Kallay said patents, including standard-essential patents, should not be treated as automatic market-power proof and defended injunction access for patent owners.
The emergency order gives the First Circuit time to rule on the government’s bid to stay Rhode Island federal court directives requiring full November SNAP funding.
A published panel held that the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act did not reach claims and a workplace dispute that arose before the statute took effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a stay request after the government said disputed funds would remain in the United States while any certiorari petition is pending.
The proposed settlement would require Deere to give farmers and independent repair providers access to repair tools and software capabilities it provides to authorized dealers.
The panel affirmed more than $793,000 in attorneys' fees for surface landowners, while a concurrence said the district court's lodestar analysis erred but did not warrant reversal.
A D.C. federal judge stayed Julie Beberman's case while a related Virgin Islands action over Foreign Service grievance proceedings may be transferred to Washington.
Oregon's attorney general says Paramount Skydance has not complied with a state records request tied to review of its proposed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.
The justices said the government had not yet shown irreparable harm, but left room for a renewed request if discovery begins before a forthcoming certiorari petition is resolved.
Justice Samuel Alito issued an administrative stay of two Third Circuit orders while the Supreme Court awaits a response to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's application.
A D.C. Circuit panel refused to pause an order requiring President Donald Trump's name to be removed from Kennedy Center signage, website references and related trademark applications, finding no showing of irreparable harm.
The Supreme Court denied review in a Humboldt County case, but Justice Gorsuch said the justices should soon reconsider precedent refusing to apply the Seventh Amendment civil jury right to the states.
The justices declined to stop Anthony Boyd's execution by nitrogen hypoxia, over a three-justice dissent saying the method risks minutes of conscious suffocation.
The justices declined to revisit United States v. Kagama, drawing a dissent that said the precedent's theory of federal plenary power over tribal affairs lacks a constitutional foundation.
The justices stayed a lower-court order blocking Texas’ mid-decade redistricting plan, splitting over whether the state’s new map reflected partisan line-drawing or unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.
The justices stayed a lower-court injunction blocking Texas' congressional redistricting plan, saying the state was likely to show serious errors in the racial-gerrymandering ruling.
The justice concurred in denying certiorari but said a district court was wrong to think federal judges are barred from explaining the criminal burden of proof.
The justices held that candidates have standing to challenge vote-counting rules in their own elections, sending Rep. Michael Bost's challenge to Illinois' post-election mail-ballot receipt deadline back to the lower courts.
The justices said one act that violates both 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j) can support only one conviction absent clear congressional authorization.
The Supreme Court held that Rule 60's reasonable-time deadline applies even when a litigant argues a judgment is void.
A Washington, D.C., federal judge dismissed a pro se prisoner's sprawling civil rights case against the U.S. government, finding some allegations too insubstantial for federal jurisdiction and the rest too incoherent to proceed.
A former union employee may add a Section 1981 race-discrimination claim over a COVID-19 vaccine policy rollout, but a D.C. federal judge rejected her bid to add several other theories.
A D.C. federal judge let a former International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers employee expand his race discrimination case over his firing under a COVID-19 vaccine policy, but refused to revive or add several other employment, tort and labor-law claims.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously revived an ex post facto challenge to a federal restitution order, holding that Mandatory Victims Restitution Act restitution counts as criminal punishment.
The justices said AEDPA required deference to a Maryland court's finding that an undisclosed forensic report was not material to Charles Brandon Martin's conviction.
The justices paused a New York trial-court order requiring a new congressional district while state appeals proceed, drawing sharp disagreement over race, jurisdiction and election timing.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Heck v. Humphrey does not bar a Section 1983 suit seeking only prospective relief from future enforcement of a city ordinance.
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Second Circuit and held a Vermont police sergeant was entitled to qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment suit over his use of a rear wristlock during a state capitol sit-in.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented from the Supreme Court's refusal to take up Rodney Reed's latest bid for DNA testing in his Texas death-penalty case.
The justices said an internet provider is not contributorily liable for users' infringement merely because it kept providing service after receiving infringement notices.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson, said the Supreme Court should have reviewed James Skinner's bid for the same Brady relief his codefendant previously won.
The panel said a Massachusetts defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in Freenet Opennet requests that law enforcement received and logged through a peer-to-peer monitoring tool.
The justices said Chevron plausibly tied challenged World War II crude-oil production to federal aviation-gasoline refining duties, vacating a Fifth Circuit remand ruling.
The justices said a D.C. officer had reasonable suspicion to stop a juvenile driver after a late-night suspicious-vehicle call, two passengers fled and the car began backing out with a door open.
The panel said a former DEA employee failed to show that her firing for insubordination and alleged lack of candor was a pretext for retaliation.
The panel told defense counsel to explain why Joseph Harris’ guilty plea, appeal waiver and potential appellate issues leave no arguable basis for relief before it rules on withdrawal.
The panel said a Gambian man's methamphetamine conviction remained a particularly serious crime that barred withholding of removal despite his challenge to Chevron-era precedent.
A Third Circuit panel said Dr. Norman Wang can press key defamation and retaliation claims over the fallout from his article criticizing race-conscious policies in medical training.
The justice said the standard for reviewing whether a child is well settled under the Hague Convention has divided federal appeals courts, but changed circumstances made the case a poor vehicle for review.
The Supreme Court held that the 30-day deadline for removing civil cases to federal court cannot be equitably tolled, sending Michigan's Line 5 lawsuit against Enbridge back to state court.
The Federal Trade Commission will host a May 20 workshop on litigate-the-fix merger remedy proposals, with FTC and DOJ officials among the expected participants.
The FTC said 365 Retail must sell Cantaloupe's Three Square Market business to Seaga to resolve concerns that the micromarket kiosk deal would raise prices and weaken interoperability competition.
The panel said evidence of force, fear and corroborating injuries supported the jury's verdict against Ellery Zephier Sr.
The Eighth Circuit said two Kansas City detectives and a prosecutor must face claims tied to an overturned murder conviction that kept Keith Carnes imprisoned for 18 years.
Federal antitrust enforcers called on state attorneys general to pursue potential petroleum-market collusion, retail price manipulation and consumer protection violations tied to high gas prices.
The U.S. Supreme Court said the FAAAA's motor-vehicle safety exception saves a negligent-hiring claim against C.H. Robinson from federal preemption.
The D.C. Circuit affirmed convictions and prison terms for two men tied to a scheme that used cash bribes to slash D.C. business tax bills, finding any flaw in the bribery instructions harmless.
The D.C. Circuit partly reversed a $13 million pension-liability judgment, finding one delinquent-contribution theory was not properly pleaded and sending disputed personal-liability issues back for further proceedings.
The antitrust agencies gave stakeholders until May 21 to weigh in on potential updates to guidance for collaborations among competitors.
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a Fifth Circuit order that had suspended 2023 FDA mifepristone dispensing changes, drawing dissents from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over emergency relief for the drug's manufacturers.
The panel said an Illinois federal judge properly treated Malaia Turner as a leader in a methamphetamine conspiracy and found no reversible error in the drug-quantity calculations used at sentencing.
The new FTC group will coordinate healthcare enforcement and advocacy across the agency's competition, consumer protection, economics, policy and technology arms.
The U.S. Department of Justice said a proposed consent decree would bar Willow Bridge from using certain competitor-data-driven pricing algorithms and from sharing competitively sensitive rental information with rivals.
The justice concurred in denying certiorari after the government said it had mistakenly fought Michael Lairy's challenge to a prison term five years above the statutory maximum.
The panel said a Decatur, Illinois, traffic stop was valid, the dog sniff did not unlawfully prolong it, and the evidence was enough to show constructive possession.
The agency said the pest-control company must stop enforcing noncompete agreements and notify current and former workers they can compete.
The antitrust agencies are weighing updated guidance after the 2000 competitor collaboration guidelines were withdrawn in late 2024.
The Supreme Court said cruise lines may face Title III liability for using Havana port docks confiscated after the Cuban Revolution, even though Havana Docks' concession would have expired before the cruises at issue.
The panel said threats and an assault by Serbian soccer hooligans reflected personal and performance-related grievances, not persecution tied to a protected ground.
Northrop Grumman is asking the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and set aside a 2018 consent order that imposed supply and firewall obligations after its Orbital ATK acquisition.
FTC staff told Tennessee lawmakers that allowing Ballad Health's COPA to expire before easing hospital-entry barriers could expose patients to higher costs, lower quality and reduced access to care.
The Justice Department says a former Air Force master sergeant helped steer inflated Pacific Air Forces IT contracts in a yearslong scheme that caused at least $37 million in overpayments.
The agency said the consent order resolves concerns that Valvoline's purchase of Greenbriar outlets would eliminate competition in 25 local quick-lube markets.
The justices held 6-3 that prisoners cannot use Congress' nonretroactive reduction of Section 924(c) firearm-stacking penalties as an extraordinary and compelling reason for compassionate release.
Acting antitrust chief Omeed A. Assefi told an NYU audience that the Justice Department wants candid merger engagement, structural fixes where they work and courtroom fights where they do not.
The Justice Department said a proposed Minnesota federal court settlement would curb Agri Stats' exchange of competitively sensitive meat-industry data and impose monitoring and compliance obligations.
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated an Eleventh Circuit habeas ruling for relying on post-trial DNA evidence when judging whether disputed jailhouse-informant testimony influenced a Florida murder jury.
The justices unanimously held that Amarin did not plausibly allege Hikma actively encouraged infringement of Vascepa cardiovascular-use patents.
A senior Antitrust Division official said competitors using algorithms, SaaS platforms or large language models to coordinate pricing can still face criminal scrutiny when the evidence shows an agreement.
The Federal Trade Commission said Aurobindo must sell four generic drug products to resolve competition concerns over its proposed acquisition of Lannett.
Taiheiyo Cement and CalPortland must divest three San Diego County ready-mix concrete plants to proceed with CalPortland's planned $712 million purchase of Vulcan assets, the DOJ said.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the Ninth Circuit, holding that the SEC may obtain disgorgement without first proving investors suffered pecuniary losses.
The Federal Trade Commission said it reached an agreement in principle with U.S. Anesthesia Partners to resolve litigation over an alleged Texas anesthesia roll-up, but the settlement terms remain confidential and still require further approvals.
The Antitrust Division said the Defense Production Act approvals allow domestic nuclear energy companies to coordinate on fuel-supply capacity while remaining subject to federal monitoring.
The Federal Trade Commission said Ascension must divest seven ambulatory surgery centers to resolve allegations that its proposed $3.9 billion AmSurg acquisition would harm outpatient surgical services competition.
The Justice Department said a proposed settlement would resolve its antitrust suit over OhioHealth contract provisions that allegedly blocked lower-cost commercial health insurance options.
The agency said the proposed acquisition would have combined the two leading FLACS laser-system competitors and threatened price and innovation competition.
The Seventh Circuit rejected the federal government's bid to toss two noncitizens' petitions for review as untimely, holding that equitable tolling can preserve post-Riley challenges tied to withholding-only and CAT proceedings.
Four major shipping-container manufacturers and seven executives were charged in a criminal antitrust case alleging they restricted output and fixed prices for standard dry containers.
The Federal Trade Commission said Sevita must divest 128 intermediate care facilities and related assets to Dungarvin to resolve merger concerns in three states.
The Federal Trade Commission says Rollins must stop enforcing noncompete agreements against more than 18,000 workers and is warning other pest-control employers to review similar restrictions.
The Federal Trade Commission said a Texas federal court approved consent orders resolving allegations that major advertising agencies coordinated common brand-safety standards for digital advertising.
FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson and Commissioner Mark R. Meador told a Senate committee the agency is pursuing consumer-protection and competition priorities including healthcare markets, labor practices, deceptive fees and online abuse enforcement preparations.
Oregon's attorney general said LivCor has agreed to a $7 million settlement in state antitrust litigation accusing landlords of using RealPage software to align apartment rents through competitively sensitive pricing data.
The Federal Trade Commission approved a final consent order requiring 365 Retail Markets to divest a Cantaloupe micromarket kiosk business and provide nondiscriminatory software-hardware integrations.
The justices held that federal pesticide law preempts a Missouri failure-to-warn claim seeking a cancer warning on Roundup's EPA-approved label.
The Justice Department said the plea is the first in an ongoing probe of bid rigging and fraud affecting U.S. military facilities.
The Justice Department says two Florida defense contractors schemed to corrupt a competitive procurement process for a military technology innovation campus in the Pacific.
The antitrust agencies are weighing whether to pursue new rulemaking on premerger reporting after a court vacated the updated Hart-Scott-Rodino form and an appeals court declined to pause that ruling.
The U.S. Supreme Court held that asylum seekers stopped in Mexico have not 'arrived in the United States' under key immigration statutes until they cross the border.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented from the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up Victor Saldaño’s bid for review of his intellectual-disability claim.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, said the court should have reviewed whether state law can automatically create an undue-hardship defense to religious-accommodation claims under Title VII.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Alan Dershowitz's defamation fight with Cable News Network, Inc., but two justices said the case was a vehicle to revisit the actual-malice standard for public figures.
Justice Sotomayor urged lower courts to weigh the Supreme Court's recent waiver reasoning before enforcing appeal or collateral-review waivers against defendants challenging their convictions.
A Fifth Circuit panel affirmed summary judgment for Louisiana in drugmakers’ challenge to a state law protecting 340B contract-pharmacy distribution.
The panel said two noncitizens seeking withholding-only or Convention Against Torture protection may use equitable tolling to overcome Riley's 30-day filing rule.
The panel said two Massachusetts cocaine convictions did not qualify as federal guideline controlled substance offenses because the state definition was broader than the federal drug schedules.
The appeals court said Robert Lynn failed to show that Bank of New York Mellon’s stated reasons for eliminating his role masked race discrimination or retaliation.
The panel affirmed a firearms sentence after holding that Minnesota third-degree murder qualifies as generic murder under the federal sentencing guidelines.
The Tenth Circuit held that Kansas consumers' storm-pricing claims against wholesale natural-gas suppliers are field-preempted by the Natural Gas Act.
The en banc Eleventh Circuit held that an Alabama sex-offender residency law burdens a fundamental parental right, sending the dispute back to a panel for further proceedings.
The Fourth Circuit said jurors should have been instructed that bodily injury under a federal civil-rights statute must be a proximate result of the defendant's conduct.
A split Fourth Circuit said jurors needed a proximate-cause instruction before finding that a former prison official's civil rights violation resulted in bodily injury, while leaving false-statement convictions intact.
A Fourth Circuit panel said two detention officers were not entitled to qualified immunity at this stage over allegations they delayed checking on an inmate they suspected had been beaten.
The panel said federal courts owed AEDPA deference to state-court rulings rejecting K.C. Langford's speedy-trial and ineffective-assistance claims.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the denial of compassionate release for a federal prisoner with end-stage renal disease, holding that courts must assess whether the condition is terminal on the defendant-specific record.
The First Circuit ordered Maine officials to face a preliminary injunction against one religious-expression rule while largely rejecting St. Dominic Academy's bid to block other anti-discrimination requirements tied to public tuition funding.
The panel said a Kentucky federal court violated criminal forfeiture timing rules but that the mistakes did not justify vacating Jeremy Wayne Harrell's forfeiture sentence.
The Fifth Circuit said a felon-in-possession defendant could keep challenging two supervised-release conditions tied to a later revocation, then struck them because they were not properly pronounced in court.
A divided Ninth Circuit said federal energy-efficiency law does not preempt Southern California air regulators’ zero-emissions appliance rule adopted to meet Clean Air Act ozone obligations.
The panel said a state court reasonably found that an improperly admitted confession was harmless despite a Miranda violation.
The panel said landowners' challenge to a 15% administrative fee on interest from court-held condemnation funds was void because it ran into Puerto Rico's Title III automatic stay.
The panel said counsel's second-degree murder strategy did not trigger McCoy structural error or Cronic presumed prejudice in Kyle Quentin Sago's postconviction bid.
The Third Circuit said a firearm with one illegible serial number can trigger a four-level Guidelines enhancement even if another serial number on the gun remains readable.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed Luisito Espanola's wire fraud and money laundering convictions, holding that using his own discovery production as part of the authentication analysis did not violate his right to testify.
The Eighth Circuit held that the government cannot use the Debt Collection Improvement Act to sidestep the five-year limitations period for collecting OSHA civil penalties.
The panel rejected the federal government's new reading of immigration detention law, deepening a fast-moving circuit split over mandatory detention for noncitizens arrested inside the U.S.