A federal judge in Tacoma denied dismissal of free-speech and free-exercise claims brought by Christian foster parents who received a restricted license after refusing to use a child's preferred pronouns, holding that Washington's SOGIE-affirmation...
A California appellate court rejected Second Amendment facial challenges to five state firearms statutes, holding that assault weapons, short-barreled shotguns, large-capacity magazines, and silencers fall outside the Amendment's protection, and that a...
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the denial of habeas corpus for Phillip L. Jones, an Ohio prisoner on death row for the 2007 killing of Susan Yates, whose body was found at Mount Peace Cemetery in Akron.
A published Ninth Circuit panel held that California's identification mandate for non-uniformed federal law enforcement officers likely violates the intergovernmental immunity doctrine and granted the federal government an injunction pending appeal.
An eleven-judge en banc panel affirmed that a California city's voter-approved campaign finance law survives First Amendment scrutiny, setting circuit-wide precedent on what evidence a municipality must produce to justify contribution limits and how courts...
A federal appeals court reversed a jury verdict against a Philadelphia detective and cut a punitive-damages award by more than 95 percent, holding that probable cause shielded the detective from liability and that the remaining award against the arresting...
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument next week in Chatrie v. United States, a case that challenges the constitutionality of law enforcement’s use of geofence warrants to obtain digital location data from technology companies.
The Supreme Court vacated the Fourth Circuit’s ruling that state-law tort claims against military contractors are automatically preempted during wartime, holding that such claims proceed when the contractor violates military instructions.
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...
The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed that the Second Amendment does not protect possession of machineguns, upholding the federal ban under 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) and joining several other circuits that have addressed the question.
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.
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...
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...
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 justices debated whether a federal district court can review a state-court consent order while that order remains under appeal in the state appellate system.