A divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a writ of mandamus terminating a district court's criminal contempt investigation into whether senior executive branch officials willfully violated a temporary restraining order when they transferred Venezuelan Tren de...
The justices declined to block Ohio's removal of a congressional candidate who once ran for DNC chair, leaving him off the Republican primary ballot.
A federal judge dismissed the equitable claims but preserved the money-damages suit brought by a White Hall, Alabama bingo operator against state Attorney General Steve Marshall, ruling that Younger abstention bars federal interference while the state...
The Supreme Court heard argument in a capital case testing whether a Mississippi trial judge's failure to conduct the third step of a Batson inquiry — and his repeated assurances that the defense's objection was already in the record — can be treated as a...
A federal judge held that four former Boston Police Department officers are shielded by qualified immunity from a wrongful-conviction lawsuit brought by a man whose two first-degree murder convictions were vacated after more than two decades in prison.
A federal district court declined to adopt a magistrate's summary-judgment recommendation in a Fifth Amendment takings suit, finding the claim potentially unripe after Massachusetts amended the very statute the plaintiff's case was built on.
A pro se candidate's First and Fourteenth Amendment challenge to Tennessee's ballot-designation statutes remains pending, but his bid for emergency relief was denied on procedural grounds.
The Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could reshape how federal courts handle appeal waivers in plea agreements, with justices across the ideological spectrum skeptical of both parties' positions.
The Supreme Court heard argument in a case testing whether the federal ban on gun possession by "unlawful users" of controlled substances can constitutionally be applied to a habitual marijuana user.
The justices pressed both sides hard on whether the Fifth Amendment requires fair market value — not just auction proceeds — when a county seizes a home over a small tax debt.
The Supreme Court heard argument on whether the 1996 Helms-Burton Act abrogates the foreign sovereign immunity of Cuban government instrumentalities, bypassing the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act entirely.
An Arkansas federal judge denied a preliminary injunction to an apartment complex owner alleging that three local governments caused repeated flooding of its property, holding that equitable relief is unavailable in federal takings cases where just...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in an emergency stay application testing whether President Trump lawfully removed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook — and whether any court can do anything about it if he did not.
The justices pressed both sides hard on whether Hawaii's default-consent rule is a Second Amendment violation or simply a property-law choice states are free to make.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in a dispute over whether New Jersey Transit, a state-created public corporation, shares in New Jersey's sovereign immunity and can therefore require injured plaintiffs to sue only in New Jersey courts.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could determine whether West Virginia's law restricting girls' sports teams to students whose biological sex is female violates Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause — with justices pressing hard on the...
The Supreme Court heard argument in a case testing whether Idaho's law barring transgender women from competing on women's school sports teams can be challenged on an individual, as-applied basis under the Equal Protection Clause.
Louisiana parishes suing oil companies over coastal damage are fighting to keep those cases in state court, while Chevron and other petitioners argue that wartime federal contracts entitle them to a federal forum under the Federal Officer Removal Act.
The Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could reshape how courts assess intellectual disability claims by death-row inmates, with the justices sharply divided over whether multiple IQ scores must be evaluated holistically or whether states may apply...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is asking the justices to strike down federal limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates, arguing the restrictions cannot stand alongside the Court's recent First...