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Federal Appeals Court Says Texas' Ten Commandments Law Isn't Indoctrination

The 5th Circuit upheld a controversial law requiring Texas schools to display the Ten Commandments.

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Federal Appeals Court Says Trump's Tariffs Are Unlawful, Allows Them To Remain in Place

Trump went "beyond the authority delegated to the President," the court ruled, but it vacated an injunction that could have provided immediate tariff relief to American businesses.

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Federal Appeals Court Rules Takings Clause Creates Cause of Action Even Without Additional Federal or State Legislation

Victims of uncompensated takings can sue directly under the Constitution. The case involved uncompensated seizure of horses.

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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration's Attempt To Block Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

"This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson warned.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Appeals Court Decisions

A mashgiach minister, a spicy habeas, and a Madlibs macro.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi's Jim Crow–Era Felon Voting Ban

"In short, 'cruel and unusual' is not the same as 'harmful and unfair,'" the court wrote.

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Federal Appeals Court Says Texas Inmate's Decade-Long Lawsuit Over Sleep Deprivation Can Keep Going

Michael Garrett and other Texas inmates get less than four hours of sleep a night. He argues it's cruel and unusual punishment.

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Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Reform Prosecutor Removed from Office by Ron DeSantis

"The First Amendment prevents DeSantis from identifying a reform prosecutor and then suspending him to garner political benefit," U.S. Circuit Judge Jill Pryor wrote.

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Trump's fraud allegations face crucial legal battle before Appeals Court

Get ready for a constitutional showdown! The Federal Appeals Court will examine whether former President Trump enjoyed immunity during his advocacy in the ...

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Federal Appeals Court Rules Detroit's Asset Forfeiture Violates Due Process Rights of Drivers

A federal circuit judge writes that Detroit's vehicle seizure scheme "is simply a money-making venture—one most often used to extort money from those who can least afford it."

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Federal Appeals Court Stops the 'Stop WOKE Act'

The 11th Circuit panel refused to lift an injunction against the law.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds First Amendment Right To Warn Drivers of Police Ahead

Michael Friend was arrested in 2018 for holding a sign that read "Cops Ahead" near a police checkpoint. That arrest violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Rent Control Challenge, Says Government Has Wide Powers To Regulate Land Use

The 2nd Circuit reasoned that the government hasn't necessarily taken a landlord's property when it forces him or her to operate at a loss while renting to a tenant he or she never agreed to host.

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds College Degree Requirement for Child Care Staff

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Delta-8 Cannabis Compound Is Legal, Says Federal Appeals Court

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