The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

From Hughes v. Few, decided yesterday by Judge Andrew Oldham, joined by Judges E. Grady Jolly and Kurt Engelhardt; for the details, read the opinion itself: For those who worry that qualified immunity can be invoked under absurd circumstances: Buckle up. Austin Thompson Hughes is a Good Samaritan. After 2:30…

The ruling builds on the same court's two prior decisions to the same effect.

Student loan forgiveness, critical infrastructure, and inexcusable incompetence.

In the process, the court also rejected Texas's argument that illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as "invasion."

Nuclear waste, river cruises, and an exploding toilet.

The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit's Rejection of the FDA's "Surprise Switcheroo."

The Shadow Docket giveth, The Shadow Docket taketh away

The center of the Court wants to push back on temporary administrative stays and the Fifth Circuit.

The government is entitled to try to persuade social media to take down posts, but not to coerce them to do so.