A divided full Sixth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Michigan county’s practice of opening its board meetings with a commissioner-led prayer as constitutional, finding the prayers fall inside the scope of historically accepted traditions and are not coercive.
Read moreThe en banc Seventh Circuit agreed Friday to rehear the overturned homicide conviction of “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey to determine if the intellectually disabled teen’s confession to rape and murder was voluntary.
Read moreWisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a petition Wednesday asking the en banc Seventh Circuit to rehear the overturned homicide conviction of “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey, who could be released from prison in September.
Read moreThe en banc Sixth Circuit ruled 8-6 Wednesday to overturn an injunction against Ohio’s lethal-injection protocol, clearing the way for the state to move forward with scheduled executions.
Read moreThe entire Sixth Circuit heard debate Wednesday over the constitutionality of a Michigan county’s practice of opening board meetings with a commissioner-led prayer, after the court vacated a three-judge panel’s ruling against the prayer and agreed to decide the case en banc.
Read moreThe en banc Sixth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday over Ohio’s three-drug lethal injection procedure, as over two dozen death-row inmates await word on the status of their executions.
Read moreReversing its earlier ruling on a free speech challenge to California’s ban on compensating retailers for advertising alcohol products, an en banc Ninth Circuit on Wednesday potentially handed final say on the issue over to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreOhio’s three-drug execution protocol, which includes the use of a controversial sedative, will be argued before the entire Sixth Circuit, after a successful petition by the state.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday opted not to hear the federal government’s appeal of Hawaii’s fight against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, leaving the case in the hands of a three-judge panel.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit will hold an en banc rehearing on a challenge to an Atlanta suburb’s sex toy ban that it previously upheld citing a 2004 precedent.
Read moreThe constitutionality of government-led prayer will be determined by the entire Sixth Circuit in an en banc hearing, following a poll of its judges without a request from the parties involved.
Read moreThe en banc Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons, overturning a panel decision last year that said the ban placed a substantial burden on the right to bear arms.
Read moreThe en banc Seventh Circuit ruled 6-4 that an Indiana prison health care provider may be liable for allowing an inmate who relied on a feeding tube to die of starvation in just 37 days.
Read moreTo pummel a disgraced New York courier company owner, the Second Circuit created a tax fraud precedent so broad that — in the words of two dissenting judges — “nobody is safe.”
Read moreAt oral arguments Wednesday, the full Seventh Circuit clearly leaned toward granting gay and lesbian employees Title VII protection against being fired for their sexual orientation.
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