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 I recently blogged about an unpublished opinion concerning Planned Parenthood.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 The panel issued an unpublished opinion.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.

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

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

The EPA was wrong to reject Mississippi’s ozone pollution plan using data that wasn’t available when the state submitted the ...

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 ...

The Fifth Circuit (Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) has 17 active judgeships, all of which are filled. It has 12 appointees of Republican presidents (Reagan 2, GW Bush 4, Trump 6) and only five ...

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 ...

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 divided Fifth Circuit upheld Texas’ new voter ID law Friday ... U.S. Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham, a Reagan appointee, wrote in a 4-page concurring opinion that he believes the case should ...

FCC, the en banc Fifth Circuit ruled by a vote of 9 to 7 that ... Judge Andrew Oldham wrote the majority opinion for nine judges. Judge Jennifer Elrod and Judge James Ho each wrote short ...