Yet, the Fifth Circuit remains the most interesting circuit in the country. I recently blogged about an unpublished opinion concerning Planned Parenthood. I suggested that the panel's choice to ...

A panel of the Fifth Circuit (Smith, Elrod, Oldham) ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Sambrano v. United Airlines. The panel issued an unpublished opinion. Judge Smith dissented on the merits.

Judge Smith requests en banc review of the opinion — that is, consideration by the entirety of the Fifth Circuit’s judges, typically reserved for particularly significant or controversial rulings — ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 allows it to simply say a lower court or administrative decision ...

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) issued the following statement regarding United States v.

Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho said many of the US’s largest law firms are suffering from “institutional bias,” amid President ...

After U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown dismissed their lawsuit, finding their allegations could not overcome the government’s sovereign immunity, they appealed to the Fifth Circuit ... he wrote in ...

Mississippi cannot count ballots that arrive after Election Day, the federal appeals court affirms, denying a petition for ...

A recent court decision by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals could potentially take control of the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport from the City of Jackson and give it to ...

A three-member panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Jan. 30 in the case of Reese v. ATF that the federal law barring the sale of handguns to those between the ages of ...

You can't say that you're in favor of judicial independence only when it comes to decisions that you like," Ho said of the ...

3. The Fifth Circuit panel majority, in an opinion by Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod that Judge Cory Wilson joined, ruled: a. Plaintiffs’ claim challenging the 2000 approval is likely barred by the ...