The Latest Breaking News from the Fifth Circuit

School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in.

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…

The Court is taking more cases from the Fifth Circuit, and its decisions do not appear to be faring well.

From a memorandum supporting a motion to permanently seal the entire case in Doe v. Crawford (S.D. Miss.): Adopting the pseudonym "Jane Doe," Plaintiff filed this case against Defendant Crawford pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 6851. She alleges Crawford engaged in "revenge porn" by transmitting a sexually intimate photograph of…

to go forward based partly on allegations that "DPH caused the suspension of [Alliance of Los Angeles County Parents'] Twitter Account."

Episode 475 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has an Appointments Clause problem.

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

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.

He paid visit to the firearm shop that sold a rifle to the Jacksonville shooter and claimed to have made a purchase

[UPDATE: Don't blog when tired or in a hurry! I regret to say the original post erroneously said the Fifth Circuit granted rehearing en banc -- the panel just granted panel rehearing, and I've corrected the post accordingly. My apologies for the error.]