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 Fourth Circuit reversed a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss in a wrongful-death suit stemming from a detainee's death from opioid withdrawal, holding that the complaint failed to connect any named officer to specific acts or omissions.
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 California Court of Appeal has rejected The Retail Property Trust's bid for property tax reassessment regarding the Brea Mall, ruling that pandemic-related closures do not constitute the physical damage required under state law. The Fourth District Cour...
The Florida Supreme Court on April 15, 2026, rejected death row inmate Chadwick Willacy's challenge to circuit court orders denying his public records requests. The per curiam opinion came just six days before Willacy's scheduled execution on April 21, 2026.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the 198-month prison sentence imposed on Reginald Brown for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The court rejected Brown’s appeal arguments regarding the distri...
The Texas Attorney General's office has filed an accelerated interlocutory appeal directly to the Texas Supreme Court seeking to overturn a district court ruling that would limit enforcement of the state's abortion restrictions in Zurawski et al. v. State o...
The Supreme Court will decide whether the Federal Communications Commission can impose multimillion-dollar fines on telecommunications carriers in administrative proceedings without providing a jury trial, a question that splits the federal circuits and tes...
Rashaan Carter sued SP Plus Corporation for alleged minimum wage violations, but the parking services company moved to compel arbitration based on a checked box in Carter's onboarding paperwork. The dispute centered on whether Carter actually agreed to arbi...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed Nathaniel Broughton’s 87-month sentence for possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, rejecting his claims that the term was procedurally and substantively unreasonable. The court also remanded the case for the district cou...
The Fourth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of an individual Chapter 13 appeal, holding that the doctrine of equitable mootness is reserved for complex reorganizations and does not apply to simple, small-dollar consumer bankruptcy disputes.