A federal appeals court on Wednesday halted the voting registration of thousands of Florida felons who cannot pay fines or fees, just weeks after a lower court threw out the state law mandating payment of all legal financial obligations before voting.
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The Ninth Circuit on Friday refused to reconsider a decision that will allow four men who spent 18 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit to sue the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, for malicious prosecution.
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In a 7-4 en banc ruling, Seventh Circuit found a Wisconsin county liable for failing to supervise a male guard in charge of female inmates, allowing him to sexually assault five women hundreds of times over three years.
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The en banc Fourth Circuit cleared the way Thursday for two states to claim that President Donald Trump rakes in prohibited emoluments from foreign and domestic governments.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected California’s request to reconsider an en banc decision to lift three injunctions against a Trump administration rule that denies federal funding to clinics that refer women for abortions.
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A lawyer fighting for victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring wants a second chance to convince the 11th Circuit that prosecutors violated federal law by keeping the wealthy financier’s plea arrangement concealed from the girls he abused.
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The full D.C. Circuit on Monday reheard a case challenging what one judge had called a “Kafkaesque” regime to approve a natural gas pipeline snaking from Pennsylvania down into Alabama.
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A federal injunction blocking a Florida law that requires felons to pay restitution and fines before being able to vote will stand, the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday, denying the state’s request for an en banc rehearing.
Read moreWeighing grand jury secrecy against the historical significance of unreleased records about a 1946 mob lynching in Georgia, the en banc 11th Circuit ruled Friday that grand jury transcripts from the unsolved Moore’s Ford case cannot be unsealed.
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After a panel of the court forbade President Donald Trump from blocking his critics on Twitter, the Second Circuit refused Monday to rehear the case en banc.
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The full D.C. Circuit on Friday agreed to hear the House Judiciary Committee’s bid to secure testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn.
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The en banc Sixth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday over Ohio’s ban on abortions involving fetuses with Down syndrome, with abortion providers again fighting to prevent the law from taking effect.
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Asking the full D.C. Circuit to rehear a controversial case on immunity for presidential advisers, the House Judiciary Committee argued Friday that the court’s failure to enforce subpoenas leaves Congress with few remedies, among them arresting White House officials.
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Two Arizona ballot-handling practices hamper the voting rights of minorities, and one state law was written to do just that, an en banc Ninth Circuit ruled Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by Democrats in the Republican-dominated state.
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The Ninth Circuit Tuesday denied Los Angeles’ petition for a rehearing of a decision that allowed the Justice Department to withhold law enforcement funding from sanctuary cities that do not comply with its immigration policies.
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The en banc 11th Circuit on Friday struck down two workers’ challenge to an Alabama law that forbids cities and counties from raising the minimum wage.
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A divided full Fourth Circuit bench reheard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of unconstitutionally profiting from his presidency through his D.C. hotel.
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Two of four lawsuits claiming President Donald Trump has violated anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution return to the Fourth Circuit for a full en banc hearing Thursday.
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