The First Circuit on Wednesday rejected HUD's bid to dissolve injunctions blocking its controversial homeless funding overhaul, finding the agency failed to show a "strong showing" that a new appropriations law underm...
Justice Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday led an 8-1 Supreme Court majority in striking down Colorado's ban on 'conversion therapy' as applied to talk therapy, writing that the law 'regulates speech based on viewpoint' in viola...
Writing for a 2-1 panel on Wednesday, Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., joined by Judge Daniel A. Bress, held that environmental and religious freedom challenges to a congressionally mandated land exchange transferrin...
Circuit Judge Walker, joined by Circuit Judges Pillard and Rogers, on Thursday held that a district court erroneously applied Indiana law when denying the Bopp Law Firm's claim to attorney's fees in a long-running case against the IRS, writing that the lowe...
Writing for a unanimous D.C. Circuit panel on Thursday, Circuit Judge Walker affirmed summary judgment for the State Department in a disability discrimination case, holding that the agency provided "reasonable, not perfect" accommodations to a visually impa...
U.S. District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky on Tuesday issued a standing order inviting amicus briefs in his cases and guaranteeing oral argument time for junior attorneys, declaring that such briefing 'could have considerably more impact at the district court leve...
U.S. District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky on Tuesday issued a standing order inviting amicus briefs in his civil cases and guaranteeing oral argument time for junior attorneys, writing that such briefing 'could have considerably more impact at the district court...
U.S. District Judge John W. Lungstrum on Wednesday reversed a Social Security Administration disability benefits denial and remanded the case for additional administrative proceedings in a ruling that sided with a Kansas plaintiff challenging the agency's d...
U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd on Tuesday ordered all parties to explain why their nearly three-year failure to file settlement documents should not result in involuntary dismissal, warning that 'further extensions of the deadline to file will not be gra...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney on Wednesday denied pro se plaintiffs' Rule 11 sanctions motions against Sierra County and its counsel, finding that 'disagreement over facts and legal arguments generally will not justify imposition of sanctions.'
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary S. Austin on Wednesday ordered the remand of a Social Security disability benefits case to the Commissioner after both parties agreed to send the matter back for further proceedings, directing entry of judgment in favor of the pla...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary S. Austin on Wednesday ordered the remand of a Social Security disability case to the Commissioner after the agency stipulated to voluntary reversal, directing entry of judgment in favor of plaintiff William Velasco.
U.S. District Judge Walter Byron on Tuesday held that a pro se father's civil rights complaint against child welfare officials constituted an impermissible 'shotgun pleading' that 'exact[s] an intolerable toll on the trial court's docket.'
Circuit Judge Henderson, joined by Judges Katsas and Rao, on Tuesday denied Anthropic's emergency request to block the Pentagon from cutting off the AI company's defense contracts, finding that 'judicial management of how, and through whom, the Department o...
Writing for a 2-1 panel on Wednesday, Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., joined by Judge Daniel A. Bress, held that environmental and religious freedom challenges to a congressionally mandated land exchange transferring nearly 2,500 acres of National Forest...
Circuit Judge Daniel P. Collins, writing for a unanimous panel, on Tuesday denied pro se petitioner Genghmun Eng's challenge to the EPA's refusal to object to a Los Angeles-area refinery permit, holding that 'the Title V permitting process is not the approp...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Anthony D. Johnstone, joined by Judges Johnnie B. Rawlinson and Eric D. Miller, on Tuesday affirmed a permanent disqualification from federal food assistance for Brothers Market LLC No. 2 after finding that hundr...
Writing for a unanimous panel Monday, Chief Judge William Pryor, joined by Circuit Judges Abudu and Tjoflat, held that coal miners need only prove they worked 125 days in coal mines during any calendar year to establish a 'year' of employment for black lung...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Pillard, joined by Judges Walker and Childs, on Monday affirmed a $47 million arbitration award against Mexico for failing to protect a Canadian investor's mortgage-secured real estate loans, rejecting Mexico's c...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Erickson, joined by Judges Smith and Kobes, on Monday vacated a preliminary injunction blocking Iowa's law requiring removal of books containing 'descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act' from school librar...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Patrick J. Bumatay, joined by Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. and District Judge J. Campbell Barker, on Tuesday held that postjudgment interest on attorneys' fees accrues from when the court awards a specific am...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court's award of a 1.75 multiplier enhancement to attorney fees in a qui tam whistleblower case, ruling that exceptional results and investigative work were already accounted for in the bas...
Circuit Judge Stark, joined by Judges Dyk and Hughes, on Tuesday dismissed two veterans' appeals challenging dismissals by the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims as moot, holding that the appellants 'lack standing to pursue these appeals' after the Board...