The First Circuit lets an arbitrator's bargaining-unit ruling stand against Harvard; the Ninth Circuit polices the Ellison and Au empires in the Hawaii Island Air collapse; a Tenth Circuit pension case turns on transitive verbs; and the Ninth Circuit declines, with eleven judges protesting, to revisit Oak Flat.
Judge King holds the FDCPA originator exclusion requires collecting for another — and affirms anyway; a Texas stapler case dies on presuit notice and a hidden refile; four months is not a RICO pattern in the First Circuit; Judge Matsumoto builds the Groff undue-hardship record for hospitals over Judge Tung's dissent; Judge Ho on the audition trap.
The Sixth Circuit splits Hartman from Nieves across parking tickets, noise citations, and prosecutions; the Third Circuit calls Thomson Reuters v. Ross an ordinary copyright case and backs Westlaw's headnotes; and the Federal Circuit invalidates a patent that claimed the impossible.
Westlaw wins its AI-training copyright case, a thirty-year-old securities materiality rule is abrogated, the Second Circuit frees entire lawsuits from arbitration under the EFAA, BIPA's government-contractor loophole closes, and the Federal Circuit refuses an enablement end-run.
Judge Tung rules the False Claims Act's military-membership bar is jurisdictional, not an immunity, so no collateral-order appeal. Plus: Chief Judge Murguia sends a Seattle DEI-training hostile-environment case to a jury, the Eleventh Circuit revives a certified bail class after a same-day policy swap, Judge Lee and Judge Taibleson fight over what undue-hardship proof a hospital owes, a state wins back its suit after a citizen-group consent decree ambush, and an Oregon grievance form stops the limitations clock.
Chief Judge Murguia sends a Seattle Race and Social Justice hostile-work-environment case to a jury, the Eleventh Circuit refuses to let a county moot a bail class by rewriting its policy mid-litigation, a gold mine cannot buy peace against a state from one citizen group, and the Seventh Circuit splits on vaccine mandate summary judgment.
The D.C. Circuit upholds the Department of War's supply-chain exclusion of Anthropic's Claude, the Sixth Circuit says Kalshi's sports contracts are not swaps and states are not preempted, Alstom wins standing but loses a three-billion-dollar Buy America fight, and the Supreme Court's emergency docket revives a voter-citizenship database and rebukes the Eighth Circuit on Missouri's map.
The Ninth Circuit scraps its causal-nexus test for federal officer removal after Plaquemines, affirms a right-of-publicity class against Classmates.com, and rules a two-hundred-million-dollar HUD compliance deal was no alternate remedy under the False Claims Act, while the Third Circuit splits from the Fifth on Younger abstention and bail.
The First Circuit subordinates an $8.5 billion bondholder claim against Puerto Rico, the Ninth Circuit preempts a 300,000-person airport pollution class action and erases a $7.2 million Delta verdict, and a fungible-money fight over cash an FBI agent stole.
A Ninth Circuit panel wipes out a hundred-forty-million-dollar Fair Credit Reporting Act class verdict on Safeco grounds, the D.C. Circuit vacates a Capitol-steps injunction under CASA and sends a cable-royalty split back for its missing math, and the Federal Circuit revives a VA whistleblower who said the agency's AI slowed veterans' claims.