LinkedIn was denied its petition on Friday for an en banc rehearing of a Ninth Circuit panel’s blockbuster ruling against the social media site that allowed a data analysis company to scrape the site’s user data and sell it to other companies.
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Montana Supreme Court to Decide Whether Dinosaur Fossils Are Minerals
The Montana Supreme Court met en banc Thursday morning to decide once and for all whether or not dinosaur fossils are minerals.
Read moreTSA Abuses
The Third Circuit allowed an airline passenger to sue the Transportation Security Administration for “torment” and “abuse” she suffered from TSA screeners at Philadelphia International Airport, including “forcing her to crawl under a table” to reach the belongings they had taken from her, and damaged, and allegedly causing her to be falsely charged with 10 crimes.
Read moreNo Immunity for TSA Officers Sued Over Airport Arrest
Advancing a lawsuit against the TSA, the en banc Third Circuit sided Friday with a woman who says airport security racked up bogus criminal charges against her after a gratuitous ordeal at baggage screening.
Read more‘Habitual Drunkard’ Law Nixed for Vagueness by 4th Circuit
Siding with four homeless men whom Virginia has repeatedly jailed for alcohol consumption, the en banc Fourth Circuit struck down Virginia’s “habitual drunkard” law Tuesday as unconstitutional.
Read moreContempt
David Daleiden and his anti-abortion group are not entitled to an en banc rehearing on their $195,000 contempt fine for releasing secretly recorded videos in violation of a preliminary injunction, the Ninth Circuit ruled.
Read moreAbortion Gag Rule Stays Ahead of Full 9th Circuit Rehearing
The Trump administration’s controversial “gag rule” that bans federally funded clinics from discussing abortion with patients will stay in effect pending an en banc rehearing, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreDC Circuit OKs Payment-Plan Rules for Campaign Donors
The en banc D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that it will keep in place an installment plan for nearly $250,000 bequeathed to the Libertarian Party.
Read moreSixth Circuit Will Not Hear Flint Water Case En Banc
Flint city officials still face liability over the city’s contaminated-water crisis after the full Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday not to vacate a panel decision denying immunity from claims brought by a family who drank lead-laced water, but five conservative judges wrote separately to voice their disagreement.
Read moreTexas Asks 5th Circuit to Let It Cut Planned Parenthood Funding
Sixteen Fifth Circuit judges heard arguments Tuesday on whether Texas can sever Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program, in a case stemming from a 2015 sting video made by anti-abortion activists that supposedly shows clinic representatives bartering the sale of fetal tissue.
Read moreFull Sixth Circuit Allows Ohio to Block Abortion Clinic Funds
The en banc Sixth Circuit ruled 11-6 Tuesday that Ohio can withhold funding for public health programs from abortion providers, most notably Planned Parenthood.
Read moreFull Fourth Circuit Urged to Stop Pipeline Land Grab
Landowners impacted by the construction of a natural gas pipeline through the Appalachian Mountains filed an appeal late Tuesday asking the en banc Fourth Circuit to reconsider a three-judge panel’s approval of a “take first, pay later” approach to eminent domain.
Read more‘Full Frontal’ Hugs on Trial Before En Banc Seventh Circuit
The full Seventh Circuit held oral arguments Tuesday to decide whether a Wisconsin school district can be held liable for not taking action against a security guard who frequently “full frontal bear hugged” and massaged students, leading to accusations he sexually abused a middle school girl.
Read moreFull Fourth Circuit Urged to Dump ‘Habitual Drunkard’ Law
A group of homeless Virginians went before the en banc Fourth Circuit on Wednesday hoping to overturn a state law that targets public alcohol consumption by “habitual drunkards.”
Read moreFull Seventh Circuit Limits Age-Bias Protections
The en banc Seventh Circuit ruled Wednesday that the protections of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act apply only to current employees, not to job applicants.
Read moreNinth Circuit Reverses Too-Small Award for Attorneys on ‘No-Fly’ Case
A divided en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday struck down a fee award of more than $400,000 for the pro bono lawyers who won their Malaysian client’s removal from the federal government’s no-fly list, an amount the attorneys called a “pittance.”
Read moreFannie, Freddie Shareholder Suit Faces En Banc Review
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to rehear an action by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders after a divided three-judge panel concluded that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) was unconstitutional.
Read moreGreat Barrier Reef
The Ninth Circuit refused Thursday to rehear en banc a challenge over the U.S. Import-Export Bank’s $4.8 billion funding of a natural gas project thought to threaten the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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