The D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of a motion to dismiss in a high-stakes civil forfeiture action involving over 700,000 barrels of crude oil seized from two tankers in the Mediterranean Sea. The r...
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Catholic preschool’s claim that Colorado violated the First Amendment by excluding it from a universal preschool program because the school refused to admit LGBTQ children a...
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 demonst...
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 Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a constitutional challenge to the federal ban on home distilling, holding that the prohibition is a necessary and proper means of collecting federal excise taxes on distilled spirits.
The Tenth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Oklahoma prison officials on an Eighth Amendment claim regarding unsanitary toilet conditions, while affirming summary judgment on a separate claim about inadequate nutrition.
The Tenth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court ruling in a dispute between the Comanche Nation and the Fort Sill Apache Tribe over the operation of the Warm Springs Casino.
A panel of the Ninth Circuit held that trial courts have a non-waivable duty to investigate juror bias that emerges mid-trial — and that defense counsel's agreement to keep a potentially biased juror cannot substitute for that inquiry.
The D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of a motion to dismiss in a high-stakes civil forfeiture action involving over 700,000 barrels of crude oil seized from two tankers in the Mediterranean Sea. The ruling resolves critical questions regard...
The Second Circuit reversed Akayed Ullah’s conviction for providing material support to ISIS, holding that acting independently on inspiration from propaganda does not satisfy the statutory requirement of working under the organization’s direction or control.
A federal judge in the Northern District of Iowa has granted a habeas petition and ordered the immediate release of Dharambir Singh, ruling that the government violated his due process rights by revoking his release without a hearing.
A divided Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court held that the state's near-total exclusion of abortion from Medicaid coverage violates both the state Equal Rights Amendment and the state constitution's equal protection guarantees, permanently enjoining enforcemen...
The California Supreme Court affirmed the murder convictions of both defendants but split on their death sentences, reversing Hronis's sentence because the trial court applied the pre-Edwards competency-to-stand-trial standard rather than the higher standar...
Indiana's ban on using university-issued IDs to vote will remain in effect through the May 5 primary after the Seventh Circuit invoked the Purcell principle to freeze a district court order that had restored the option mid-election.
The Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara suggest deep skepticism toward the Trump administration’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship by redefining the 14th Amendment’s “subject to the jurisdiction” clause.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Catholic preschool’s claim that Colorado violated the First Amendment by excluding it from a universal preschool program because the school refused to admit LGBTQ children and children with LGBTQ parents.
The Eleventh Circuit vacated a district court's ruling that Atlanta's 1982 sign ordinance was unconstitutional, holding that the provision restricting off-site signs is content-neutral under the First Amendment. The decision vacates a lower court order that...
A divided Fourth Circuit applied the Supreme Court's new totality-of-circumstances standard and still held that Chesterfield County Corporal Gordon Painter violated clearly established Fourth Amendment law when he shot and killed Charles Byers, a man with s...
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.
Troy Baker’s motion to dismiss a federal indictment charging him with felon-in-possession of a firearm was denied by Judge Charles E. Fleming of the Northern District of Ohio.
The Ninth Circuit has vacated a three-judge panel decision in Baird v. Bonta and ordered the full court to rehear the Second Amendment challenge to California firearms regulations, according to a brief order entered April 15 by Chief Judge Mary Murguia in t...
The Ninth Circuit has ordered full-court review of a Second Amendment challenge to California’s firearms regulations, vacating a prior three-judge panel decision in Baird v. Bonta.
A coalition of 22 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia's attorney general, and Pennsylvania's governor sued the Trump administration in federal court in Massachusetts on April 3, 2026, seeking to block an executive order that would restrict mai...