Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, we’ll take a look at comments made by Ninth Circuit Judge M. […]
DC Circuit Questions Trump Administration’s Alleged CFPB Shutdown Mission
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday heard nearly two hours of oral arguments addressing whether the Trump administration can […]
Tenth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Substantive Due Process Challenge to School District’s Gender-Identity Policies
Content Warning: This article references child suicide. In Lee v. Poudre School District R-1, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 9600, ___ F.4th. ___ (10th Cir. Apr. 22, 2025), the U.S. […]
The Eighth Circuit Reinforces the Importance of Expressly Requesting Jury Trials
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently reinforced the importance of a plaintiff asking for a jury trial either in the pleadings or within 14 […]
Divided 9th Circuit Denies Trump’s En Banc Bid to Cut Legal Aid to Migrant Children
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s request that the full court review a federal judge’s temporary pause of […]
Seeing ‘Incipient Crisis,’ 4th Circuit Keeps in Place Order for Return of Wrongly Deported Man
In a scathing opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s appeal of an order requiring the government to facilitate […]
7th Circuit Seeks State Court Guidance for Pollution Exclusion
The Illinois Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether an insurance company has to defend and indemnify two companies in an underlying industrial pollutant suit and how […]
Out-of-State Employee Can’t Clear Discrimination Claims Against Minnesota Employer, 8th Circuit Rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit this week determined that an employee cannot bring workplace discrimination claims against her former employer under the Minnesota Human […]
Former 3rd Circuit Judge Kent Jordan on Wanting an Apolitical Retirement
Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, we’re taking a look at part of my interview with retired Third […]
Investors Argue Binance’s Arbitration Demand Tests US Eleventh Circuit Precedent
An investor class that alleged that CEO Changpeng Zhao and the crypto platform Binance.com sold them unregistered securities argued on Monday that the defendants failed to cite the […]