The Fifth Circuit remanded a civil rights lawsuit to the district court, allowing a plaintiff with a prior criminal conviction to pursue claims for purely prospective relief, following a Supreme Court ruling that the Heck bar does not apply in such circumst...
The 5th Circuit vacated a district court’s preliminary injunction that ordered Canadian courts to adjudicate child custody and barred Texas judges from hearing parallel litigation, while affirming the lower court’s order returning two children to Canada und...
A prisoner at Angola who says guards led him into a wall while he was blinded and handcuffed could not point to precedent close enough to defeat qualified immunity, the majority ruled.
A Texas golf-cart company that adopted the name of a century-old battery brand must disgorge its profits, but a blanket ban on using the word "Trojan" outside the golf industry goes too far, a federal appeals court held.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed judgment against an IT contractor's ADA claims, holding that in-person attendance remained an essential job function despite the employer's pandemic-era telework policy.
A whistleblower who audited Tata Consulting Services for Comcast argued the Indian IT giant cheated the government by using cheap visas instead of pricier H-1B permits and shortchanging workers on wages.
The full Fifth Circuit will rehear a group health plan dispute between Aramark Services and Aetna Life Insurance Company, vacating a December panel decision that had resolved the clash.
The Fifth Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction against Texas’s S.B. 10, a statute requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, holding that the law does not violate the Establishment or Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amen...
The Fifth Circuit granted the appellee's unopposed motion to remand the case of D'Laun Ball for resentencing after the appellate court identified a policy statement that defense counsel, the government, and the district court had all missed.
Fifth Circuit affirms dismissal of class-action lawsuit against Southwest Airlines Company for lack of Article III standing.
The Fifth Circuit certified to the Mississippi Supreme Court a question regarding whether construction liens can satisfy statutory requirements through attached invoices that do not clearly specify the last date services were provided.
The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board order finding Starbucks Corporation liable for an unfair labor practice in connection with a union organizing campaign at its La Quinta, California store, holding that the Board applied th...