The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint when applied to talk therapy and 'the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous Fir...
Writing for a two-judge panel, Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson on Monday held that California's Assembly Bill 290 largely violates the First Amendment by placing a 'widespread burden on donors' associational rights' when...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Erickson on Monday vacated a preliminary injunction blocking Iowa's restrictions on gender identity instruction and parental notification requirements, ruling that challeng...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., joined by Judges Ronald M. Gould and Ryan D. Nelson, on Tuesday rejected an innovative constitutional challenge by 18 minors who argued that EPA policies requiring agencies to 'discount' futur...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned a district court's preliminary injunction that would have required West Virginia to provide religious exemptions to its compulsory school vaccination requirements, ruling that the state's public he...
Writing for a two-judge panel, Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson on Monday held that California's Assembly Bill 290 largely violates the First Amendment by placing a 'widespread burden on donors' associational rights' when dialysis providers contribute to charit...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Erickson on Monday vacated a preliminary injunction blocking Iowa's restrictions on gender identity instruction and parental notification requirements, ruling that challengers failed to show they were 'likely to...
The Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of William Walls' second federal habeas petition as an impermissible successive challenge to his 2015 civil commitment as a sexually violent person, while sharply criticizing Illinois state courts for extraordinary del...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has entered judgment in a long-running habeas corpus case involving Alabama death row inmate Marcus Bernard Williams, with the state appealing a federal district court ruling.
Circuit Judge Ronald Lee Gilman, joined by Judges Kethledge and Hermandorfer, on Thursday affirmed dismissal of a former councilman's claims that city officials orchestrated his prosecution to retaliate for his political speech, ruling that 'the finding of...
Circuit Judge Aframe, joined by Judges Montecalvo and Thompson, on Friday vacated a preliminary injunction against Maine's firearm waiting period law, holding that the statute 'likely regulates conduct outside the Second Amendment's plain text' and thus doe...
A federal appeals court rejected a Salvadoran woman's challenge to her deportation order, ruling she failed to properly preserve her claims of judicial bias and that courts lack jurisdiction over enforcement priorities.
A First Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed a Maine federal judge's dismissal of a law firm and client's constitutional challenge to the state's interest on lawyers' trust accounts program, ruling they failed to plausibly allege the program compelled them to...
The Court of Appeals upheld a district court's judgment against Mohamed Muthana, who sued claiming immigration notices were sent to a wrong address, after unredacted documents revealed he had actually provided that same address on his visa petition.
The Sixth Circuit on Monday reversed a Kentucky federal judge's decision denying injunctive relief to a sitting district judge, ruling that the state Judicial Conduct Commission could not constitutionally enforce ethics rules against statements that were 'r...
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 270-day disciplinary segregation sentence imposed on a New York state prisoner constitutes an 'atypical and significant hardship' requiring procedural due process protections, reversing a lower court's dismis...
A federal appeals court ruled that plaintiffs who won a voting rights case against Puerto Rico cannot collect nearly $65,000 in attorney fees because their claim was discharged under the island's bankruptcy reorganization plan.
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint when applied to talk therapy and 'the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.'
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's dismissal of a Section 1983 civil rights lawsuit filed by a mother who claimed the state court removed her child from custody without adequate due process protections.
The Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that certain powers of Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council members violate the Appointments Clause but severed those provisions while upholding a disputed commercial fishing regulation, finding that the council's "veto...