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The Latest Breaking News from the Fifth Circuit

SCOTUS Only Days Away From Hearing Major 'Ghost Gun Case': Here's What We Know

The DIY weapons, which lack serial numbers and are attainable without transfer records or background checks, are at the center of next week's major gun debate.

International Business Times

A Texas Pipeline Giant Is Backing a Regulatory Disaster

Energy Transfer owns the pipeline that caught fire recently near Houston, and it’s setting another fire at the National Labor Relations Board with the help of right-wing jurists.

Texas Observer

En Banc Fifth Circuit Tells Judge Ezra to RTFM

"The case is REMANDED with instructions to vacate the preliminary injunction and for further proceedings consistent with the majority opinion of the court."

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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Remand—Still Struggling with Standing

No, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's initial standing rulings were not faithful applications of Supreme Court precedent.

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Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine On Remand

"But the Government switched positions before the Supreme Court."

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Rahimi On Remand

"We read the Court's analysis in Rahimi to have modified Bruen in at least one relevant respect."

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Second Amendment Roundup: 8th Circuit Rules in Favor of Pistol Brace Owners

ATF shoots the side of a barn, draws a target around the bullet holes, and proclaims “bullseye!”

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Interesting Stay Dispute in Seventh Circuit Minors'-Access-to-Porn Case

From Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Rokita, decided Friday by Judges Frank Easterbrook and Amy St. Eve: Indiana seeks a stay of the preliminary injunction that a district court entered preventing the enforcement of Ind. Code § 24-4-23, which requires web sites to limit minors' access to certain sexual materials.…

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The ACLU's Response to My Post on the Fifth Circuit's Smith Ruling—And My Reply to the ACLU

A debate on a very important Fourth Amendment ruling.

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The Fifth Circuit Shuts Down Geofence Warrants—And Maybe A Lot More

An astonishing ruling, and one that creates splits on two differerent issues.

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Judge Ezra's Worrying Behavior in the Buoy Case

Judge Ezra boasted about knowing the judges on the Fifth Circuit, being sworn into the Texas Bar by the Chief Judge's husband, and threatened to have the Deputy Solicitor General's lawyer removed from the courtroom.

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Biskupic Part III Confirms What We Already Knew: Justice Alito Lost Majority Opinions in NetChoice and Trevino.

There is little here that can't be gleaned from the docket and the split opinions.

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Texas officials celebrate as court allows floating river barrier to remain at the border

Governor Greg Abbott said that justice was done and took a jab at President Joe Biden for attempting to have them removed

Latin Times

Atlas Roofing Shrugged

Another Burger Court precedent is about to be “abandoned” or “overruled” like Roe, Lemon, Chevron, Abood, and Bakke.

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District Court Rejects Magistrate Judges' Gag Order on Publishing Name of Retroactively Pseudonymized Litigant

"Professor Volokh may not ... publicly disclose Plaintiff's name or personal identifying information in any future writings, speeches, or other public discourse."

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Making Sense of the Moody Opinions In NetChoice

I think it is clear that Justice Alito lost the majority, but the resulting schizophrenic opinions still do not cohere.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Amateur sports, geofence warrants, and a Saudi kill squad.

Fortune

How an ideological war over PrEP threatens preventive services from smoking cessation to contraception to vaccines for half the U.S. population

More than 150 million Americans now have access to preventive services—and these are popular across the political spectrum.

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Taking Prison to Court: Fighting for the Right to Sleep

Michael Garrett sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice more than a decade ago, and he’s working from inside to keep the case alive.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court sidesteps gun law challenge that could impact Hunter Biden’s case

Supreme Court asked lower appeals courts to remand a case cited by Hunter Biden’s lawyers

Reason

Which Circuit Had The Highest Reversal Rate?

It was not the Fifth Circuit.

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S. Ct. Will Decide: May States Require Age Verification to Access Porn Sites?

The Court just agreed to hear this case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. You can read the majority and dissenting opinions in the Fifth Circuit here, and the petition, response, and reply here. Here's the issue in a nutshell: 1. Ginsberg v. N.Y.(1968) held (in a majority opinion by Justice…

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Social Media Moderation Is Speech, Says Supreme Court

The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Overloaded fireworks, behavioral coaching, and makeshift pockets.

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Why Does (It At Least Appear That) Justice Barrett Applies "New," "Heightened," and "Elevated" Standing Rules?

Justice Barrett adamantly resists the suggestion that she keeps leveling up the burden on plaintiffs, but it is becoming more difficult to deny.

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