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BREAKING: Supreme Court to Consider Fifth Circuit's Abortion Pill Decision

The Court granted two petitions for certiorari seeking review of a controversial lower court decision limiting federal approval of mifepristone.

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Cato Amicus Brief in the Texas and Florida Social Media Cases

The brief urges the Supreme Court to reverse its badly misguided precedent in Pruneyard v. Robins.

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Long opinions, long captions, and valuable considerations.

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Fifth Circuit Rules Against Texas in Case Where State Claimed Immigration and Drug Smuggling Qualify as "Invasion"

The ruling is mostly based on statutory issues, but also covers the "invasion" question.

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Texas must remove floating barrier from Rio Grande, Fifth Circuit Court orders

The appeals court upheld an earlier ruling by an Austin federal judge to remove the 1,000-foot-long barrier the state deployed near Eagle Pass.

The Texas Tribune

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Retaliating against a harbormaster, retaliating against a prisoner, and official-act immunity.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Solar panels, bullet fragments, and private rights of action.

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No Liability for Supposed Medical Journal Article Misrepresentation About How to Treat Lyme Disease

From the Fifth Circuit's decision Thursday in Torrey v. Infectious Diseases Soc'y of Am., written by Judge Kyle Duncan, joined by Judges Carl Stewart and Edith Jones; seems quite right to me: A professional society specializing in the study and treatment of infectious diseases published guidelines in a peer-reviewed medical…

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Our Amicus Brief in Devillier v. Texas—an Important Takings Case Before the Supreme Court

The amicus brief is on behalf of the Cato Institute and myself.

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Voting districts, work uniforms, and hunter harassment.

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Gun Hobbyists (and Liberty) Win Big in Court

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

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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

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Gift cards, strong medicine, and cloud search warrants.

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Drone speech, roofer speech, and quasi-judicial speech.

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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…

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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

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent.

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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.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

SWAT takings, retaliatory liens, and a Spam confiscation.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Carjacking, arson, and obscured license tags.

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Supreme Court Will Consider Cases Challenging Florida and Texas Social Media Laws

The laws require major social media platforms to host content they disapprove of for substantive reasons.

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Supreme Court Will Review Fifth Circuit Ruling that Creates a Catch-22 for Takings Claims Against State Governments

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.

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Fifth Circuit Panel in Missouri v. Biden Withdraws Grant of Rehearing

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…

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

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

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law.

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