The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

Grains of sand, detachable pockets, and genuine obliviousness.

The panel relies on, among other things, "the Apex doctrine."

Pit bull bans, community sensitivity, and criminal defamation.

In today's Golden Glow Tanning Salon v. City of Columbus, the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Edith Jones, joined by Judges James Ho and Cory Wilson, rejected an Equal Protection Clause and Takings Clause challenge to COVID lockdowns. This is a straightforward, and in my view a clearly…

Wanted posters, vague and threatening letters, and dragging a 75-pound dummy.

Chalking tires, curbing meters, and secretly recording videos.

analysis from Professor Zach Price

Conservatives have never liked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the brainchild of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Now a conservative panel of the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has struck down the CFPB’s rulemaking authority using a novel theory.

From the decision today by Judge Lee Rosenthal (see also this earlier post): Dr. Stella Immanuel sued CNN for defamation. The court dismissed her complaint with prejudice. Dr. Immanuel sought to appeal the dismissal, but she filed her notice of appeal a day after the 30-day deadline. Because that 30-day…

Another appellate court recognizes that federal courts lack jurisdiction to consider legal challenges to the Biden Administration's Social Cost of Carbon estimates.

Retaliatory pepper spray, excessive damages awards, and the power of the purse.