The Latest Breaking News from the Eighth Circuit

Qualified privileges, unequal conspiracies, and a file in hand.

Lethal pepper spray, soggy eggs, and high-end swimwear.

In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, the brief argued that “FCC has stubbornly refused to admit the world has changed”

So holds the Eighth Circuit, concluding that the plaintiffs had sufficiently alleged that the "Black Lives Matter" signs were private speech, rather than government speech.

In Cajune v. Indep. School. Dist. 194, decided today by the Eighth Circuit, plaintiffs sued to challenge the School District's permission for teachers to display Black Lives Matter posters in classrooms (but not for members of the public to display other posters, such as All Lives Matter or Blue Lives…

Green groups dropped their suits after the various challenges to the SEC's climate disclosure rule were consolidated in a fairly conservative circuit.

The Monuments Men, ankle monitor prejudice, and a qualified immunity ballot initiative.

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

A couple of circuit court decisions noted that the intervenors had to have a concrete plan to write about the records; the court here makes clear that such a plan indeed suffices for standing.