The D.C. Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a False Claims Act complaint, ruling that statistical probabilities cannot substitute for specific allegations of false claims and that bare conclusions about materiality are insufficient.
A three-judge panel concluded broadcasters had not shown the court likely has jurisdiction — and that a California injunction may have already reduced their claimed harm.
A six-year dispute over three days of port closures during the pandemic ends with a federal appeals court upholding the agency's freight-fluidity framework for evaluating carrier fees.
A federal appeals court paused a district court ruling that had required the Department of Defense to allow unescorted access for credentialed reporters, siding with the Pentagon’s argument that the escort requirement was a new security measure not covered...
The D.C. Circuit affirmed the civil forfeiture of over 700,000 barrels of crude oil seized from two tankers in the Mediterranean Sea, holding that the United States adequately pleaded its claim against a Turkish commodities trading company.
The D.C. Circuit vacated preliminary injunctions that had stopped the Federal Bureau of Prisons from moving eighteen transgender women to men's facilities, holding the district court record lacked individualized factual findings about the plaintiffs' specif...
The D.C. Circuit on April 18 affirmed the Secretary of Labor's authority to cite KC Transport, Inc. for safety violations at an off-site trucking maintenance facility, holding that the shop and the haul trucks it services fall within the Federal Mine Safety...
The D.C. Circuit upheld the Transportation Security Administration's decision to maintain Saad bin Khalid on the No Fly List, rejecting his constitutional and statutory challenges to the listing and the agency's redress process.
The D.C. Circuit has administratively stayed a district court's preliminary injunction in the dispute between the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Park Service pending a decision on the government's emergency motion for stay pending...
The D.C. Circuit held that a truck maintenance facility located about a mile from an active coal mine constitutes a "mine" under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977, affirming Mine Safety and Health Administration citations against KC...
The D.C. Circuit vacated preliminary injunctions that had blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from transferring eighteen transgender women plaintiffs to men’s facilities, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on their Ei...
The D.C. Circuit affirmed that the Omni Shoreham Hotel materially breached its contract with Inova Health Care Services when it relocated a black-tie cancer charity gala to inferior spaces to accommodate a competing event that promised more than three times...
A divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a writ of mandamus Tuesday terminating the district court's criminal contempt investigation into the Trump administration's March 2025 transfer of alleged Tren de Aragua members to Salvadoran custody, ruling that the unde...
A divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a writ of mandamus terminating a district court's criminal contempt investigation into whether senior executive branch officials willfully violated a temporary restraining order when they transferred Venezuelan Tren de Ar...
The D.C. Circuit held that competing expert testimony on a walkway's coefficient of friction created a genuine factual dispute, reversing summary judgment for CVS on a negligence claim arising from a Christmas Eve fall outside a D.C. store.