The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

Gun Hobbyists (and Liberty) Win Big in Court

Fifth Circuit judges slap the ATF for making up illegal rules against homemade guns.

Reason · Nov 13, 2023

Rahimi, Meenie, Miney, Mo

Will Garland v. Range be the way to go?

Reason · Nov 9, 2023

Supreme Court seems poised to keep guns away from domestic abusers

Justices will decide if courts went too far overturning federal law intended to protect survivors

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023

Louisiana Mother of Autistic Child Hit by Teacher Files Supreme Court Petition

School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in.

Reason · Oct 27, 2023

Cybertoonz Visits Murthy v. Missouri

The effort by Missouri to enjoin the Biden administration's "jawboning" of social media companies has reached the Supreme Court. The Solicitor General filed a long brief seeking a stay of the Fifth Circuit's injunction and explaining why cert should be granted. The Court granted cert and the stay (the latter…

Reason · Oct 23, 2023

Court Agrees to Hear Missouri v. Biden Federal Government / Social Media Case

From today's order and accompanying opinion in Murthy v. Missouri: The application for stay … is granted. The preliminary injunction issued on July 4, 2023, by the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana … as modified by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth…

Reason · Oct 20, 2023

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent.

Reason · Oct 20, 2023

Is the Fifth Circuit Becoming the New Ninth?

The Court is taking more cases from the Fifth Circuit, and its decisions do not appear to be faring well.

Reason · Oct 14, 2023

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

SWAT takings, retaliatory liens, and a Spam confiscation.

Reason · Oct 13, 2023

Defendant Attempting to Permanently Seal the Entire Record in a Pending "Revenge Porn" Case

From a memorandum supporting a motion to permanently seal the entire case in Doe v. Crawford (S.D. Miss.): Adopting the pseudonym "Jane Doe," Plaintiff filed this case against Defendant Crawford pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 6851. She alleges Crawford engaged in "revenge porn" by transmitting a sexually intimate photograph of…

Reason · Oct 10, 2023