The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

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…

Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent.

The badly flawed lower court ruling defies the Supreme Court's landmark 2019 decision forbidding such Catch-22 traps, and threatens the property rights of large numbers of people.

Monday, the Fifth Circuit panel that decided Missouri v. Biden—which held that some federal government actions improperly "coerced or significantly encouraged" platforms to restrict certain user speech—issued an order saying that it granted a petition for rehearing. This meant that the panel would likely reconsider the decision, though it wasn't…

Music theory, cell phone seizures, and gratuitous strip searches.

Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law.

The Fifth Circuit was right to rule it was illegal for the federal government to coerce social media firms, but wrong to uphold a Texas law requiring those firms to post material they prefer to keep out.

3,000 years of overdetention, chief lickspittle, and the wrong side of the road.

Detroit's forfeiture machine, major nuclear questions, and copyrightable materials.