The en banc Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that employers can’t justify different pay grades for male and female employees by using salary history alone, overturning more than three decades of circuit case law.
Read moreAn en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit signaled on Tuesday that it will strike down a $419,987 fee award for the pro bono lawyers who won their Malaysian client’s removal from the no-fly list, an amount her lawyers called a “pittance” limiting a person’s ability to challenge placement on government blacklists.
Read moreA gambit to have the Ninth Circuit review en banc the Federal Trade Commission’s authority over telecommunications companies paid off in a major legal victory for the commission’s dispute with AT&T.
Read moreThe First Circuit will hold an en banc rehearing on claims that Maine Governor Paul LePage interfered with a political opponent’s job offer.
Read moreThe en banc Ninth Circuit will rehear whether the U.S. government owes a Malaysian professor attorney fees and costs in her fight against being unfairly placed on the no-fly list and other terrorist databases.
Read moreUpholding contribution ceilings in federal election law, the en banc D.C. Circuit rejected claims Tuesday from Florida voters who wanted to forgo campaign donations in the primary season to double up in the general election.
Read moreThe full Seventh Circuit on Friday upheld the constitutionality of a police stop said to target a car for “parking while black,” in which Milwaukee officers pulled black passengers out of the car and handcuffed them for parking too close to a crosswalk.
Read moreA San Francisco Bay Area county did not violate the Second Amendment by prohibiting three businessmen from opening a gun store near a residential area because there is no protected right to sell guns, an en banc Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreLocal officials who want to see tougher restrictions on conceal-carry permits were dealt a loss Thursday when the D.C. Circuit declined to hold an en banc hearing on a prior ruling that made it easier to get those permits.
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The en banc Seventh Circuit heard arguments Tuesday over whether Brendan Dassey of “Making a Murderer” fame was coerced into confessing to the rape and murder of a Wisconsin woman a decade ago.
Read moreA 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 moreAn en banc Fourth Circuit on Friday ruled that commissioners in Rowan County, North Carolina, violated the constitution by opening public meetings with participation in prayers that are specific to one religion.
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.
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