The Latest Breaking News from Fourth Circuit

In Doe v. U.N.C. Sys. (W.D.N.C.), a case challenging the expulsion of plaintiff Jacob Doe for alleged sexual assault, the court issued a quite remarkable TRO last week: It, among other things, required defendants "to direct all individuals"—including UNC students—"over whom they exercise control to refrain from publishing or disclosing…

Boisterous school children, suspicious mispronunciations, and convicted misdemeanant Don Blankenship.

Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. The U.S. Supreme Court's Bruen decision instructs lower courts to look to U.S. legal history to see what sorts of restrictions on Second Amendment rights are consistent with the mainstream American legal tradition. According to…

Wanted posters, vague and threatening letters, and dragging a 75-pound dummy.

ATV noise, threat threats, and wasting judicial resources.

Two three-judge appellate panels, one from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and one from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, issued rulings in three lawsuits involving public-sector union fees or dues in the past week. 

First Amendment implications for state laws targeting election speech.

Collisions, allisions, and grand jury witnesses.

Legal history before 1900 provides no support for licensing or training mandates for keeping an arm at home