The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

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.

Reddit users are protesting Texas' H.B. 20, which forces social media platforms to host speech they find objectionable.

Of possible relevance to the Fifth Circuit's recent decision in Netchoice v. Paxton.

ATV noise, threat threats, and wasting judicial resources.

As I noted yesterday, I'm still trying to fully digest the Netchoice v. Paxton opinions, but I passed along two commentaries from top scholars on the subject, one entirely critical from Prof. Genevieve Lakier (Chicago) and one that's mostly critical from Prof. Alan Rozenshtein (Minnesota). I thought I'd also pass…

I'm still trying to fully digest the Netchoice v. Paxton opinions (I've been slammed with several things the last few weeks, including an interesting and unexpected development which I hope to blog about in some detail next month). But for now, I thought I'd pass along two commentaries from top…

They mandate occupation of private property without the consent of the owner.

Just released, Netchoice v. Paxton; I'm traveling and likely won't have time to digest the 113 pages of opinions for a while, but here's the opening from Judge Andrew Oldham's opinion, which is a majority on most points: A Texas statute named House Bill 20 generally prohibits large social media…