Supreme Court clarifies when a gun law is constitutional - Roll Call The Supreme Court clarified on Friday how it analyses the constitutionality of a gun control law, as it upheld one federal possession ban. Roll Call · Jun 21, 2024
SCOTUS Makes It Easier for Victims of Retaliatory Arrests To Vindicate Their First Amendment Rights The justices ruled that "objective evidence" of retaliation does not require "very specific comparator evidence." Reason · Jun 20, 2024
Galveston County redistricting case draws divide among federal appeals court judges The 5th Circuit expressed skepticism about arguments from both sides in considering whether a coalition of Black and Latino voters should be granted the same protections as a single racial group under the Voting Rights Act. The Texas Tribune · May 14, 2024
OpenAI Is Open To AI-Generated Erotica…but Not 'Porn' The company's confusing statements about how ChatGPT should respond to sexual prompts Reason · May 13, 2024
Supreme Court Won't Stop Texas Porn Law From Taking Effect "We will continue to fight for the right to access the internet without intrusive government oversight," says the group challenging the law. Reason · May 1, 2024
A Texas Reporter Busted for Asking Questions Asks SCOTUS To Reject the Criminalization of Journalism Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors. Reason · Apr 26, 2024
Supreme Court to decide if government can regulate 'ghost guns' - Roll Call The Supreme Court will decide whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives can regulate so-called “ghost gun” kits. Roll Call · Apr 22, 2024
SCOTUS Misses a Chance To Protect Peaceful Protesters Under a legal theory endorsed by the 5th Circuit, Martin Luther King Jr. could have been liable for other people’s violence. Reason · Apr 17, 2024
Supreme Court Revives Regulations In Latest High-Stakes Ruling Explore the dynamic legal relationship between the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, with far-reaching implications and ideological cl... Top News · Apr 7, 2024
Is a birth control ban next? A case in Texas could lead to contraception restrictions for minors across the country Salon · Mar 23, 2024
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on medication abortion drug - Roll Call The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a challenge that could limit access to a widely used drug for medication abortions. Roll Call · Mar 22, 2024
Will the Supreme Court Let Sylvia Gonzalez Sue the Political Enemies Who Engineered Her Arrest? "Mayors should not be allowed to launder animus through warrants," the former city council member's lawyer told the justices. Reason · Mar 21, 2024
5Th Circuit Court: Conservative Stronghold For Legal Battles The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is a key battleground for conservative legal strategies on contentious issues like gun rights, abortio... Top News · Mar 20, 2024
Pornhub Halts Texas Operations in Response to State's Age-Verification Legislation A 5th Circuit's temporary stay mandates age verification and health warnings on porn sites Latin Times · Mar 15, 2024
The Texas Tribune · Mar 15, 2024 Pornhub suspends site in Texas due to state’s age-verification law Legal experts say a 5th Circuit decision to uphold part of a Texas law regulating adult entertainment websites conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent regarding minors’ access to obscene material online.
The Texas Tribune · Mar 13, 2024 5th Circuit upholds Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent for contraception A three-judge panel in New Orleans ruled that a Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent to obtain birth control does not conflict with the goals of the federally-funded Title X program, which has given teens birth control confidentially.
Reason · Feb 29, 2024 SCOTUS Ponders the Implications of Prosecuting Gun Owners for a Crime Invented by Bureaucrats Several justices seemed troubled by an ATF rule that purports to ban bump stocks by reinterpreting the federal definition of machine guns.
Reason · Jan 31, 2024 The 5th Circuit Says Criminalizing Journalism Is Not Obviously Unconstitutional The appeals court dismissed a civil rights lawsuit by a Laredo gadfly who was arrested for asking questions.
Reason · Jan 19, 2024 Democratic Attorneys General Support Censorship In an amicus brief filed in Murthy v. Missouri, they ignore basic tenets of First Amendment law in order to quash online speech they don't like.
Reason · Dec 18, 2023 5th Circuit Reluctantly Rules Against Victim of a Prosecutor Who Was Also a Law Clerk Ralph Petty's "conflicted dual-hat arrangement" as an advocate and an adjudicator was "utterly bonkers," Judge Don Willett notes.
Reason · Dec 13, 2023 What's at Stake in the Supreme Court's Abortion Pill Case The Court announced today that it would take up a case involving access to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone.
Al Jazeera · Dec 13, 2023 US Supreme Court to decide on access to abortion pill in major case The Biden administration aims to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been approved by the FDA.
WEKU · Dec 11, 2023 Civil rights groups appeal court ruling that threatens Voting Rights Act enforcement Civil rights groups are appealing a federal court ruling that could make it harder to enforce key voting protections for people of color under the Voting Rights Act.
Reason · Nov 29, 2023 5th Circuit Seeks Comment on Proposed AI Rule Lawyers will have to certify they did not use AI, or verify any work produced by AI.
Roll Call · Nov 29, 2023 Supreme Court casts doubt on agency enforcement actions without juries - Roll Call The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to disrupt the process federal agencies use to police federal law violations.