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 […]
DC Circuit Upholds Temporary Block on Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday upheld a judge’s order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies […]
Divided 8th Circuit Reinstates Wage Dispute as Questions Remain Over Employer’s Communicated Policies
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit revived an overtime payment suit against a residential care facility, determining that questions of fact remained if its employees […]
Home Court Advantage? Justices Consider Which EPA Cases Must Go to DC Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is often called the nation’s second most powerful court. The reason is mostly due to its heavy […]
DC Circuit Judge Slams DOJ Attorney on Alien Enemies Act Deportations
A federal appeals court judge grilled a U.S. Justice Department attorney’s argument Monday that the Trump administration should be permitted to keep deporting Venezuelan nationals under an 18th-century […]
Fired Whistleblower Protector Abandons Legal Fight After Trump Wins DC Circuit Stay
The former head of an independent agency responsible for protecting federal whistleblowers on Thursday said he will abandon his legal fight to stay in office after an appeals […]
9th Circuit Rejects Antitrust Claims in Case Alleging Real-Estate Listing Conspiracy
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled a startup real estate broker failed to prove its anticompetitive conspiracy allegations in an antitrust lawsuit naming the […]
Second Circuit Ruling in Favor of Uniswap Labs Empowers Decentralized Platforms
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit largely affirmed the dismissal of a proposed class action lawsuit against Uniswap Labs and its venture capital backers on […]
Tenth Circuit Explains That ‘Pickering’ Balancing Is Rarely Appropriate in Ruling on Motions to Dismiss
In Brown v. City of Tulsa, 124 F.4th 1251 (10th Cir. 2025), involving a former police officer’s First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 (Section 1983), […]