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30 Oct 2006, 2:13 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit [official website] on Monday upheld [opinion text, PDF] a preliminary injunction [JURIST report] preventing South Dakota from enforcing a 2005 abortion law [text] pending a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota [advocacy website]. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 11:54 am
[JURIST] Journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal [advocacy website; Philadelphia Inquirer archive], convicted in 1982 of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner [advocacy website] after a traffic stop, may escape the death penalty after the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Thursday issued an opinion [PDF text] affirming a federal judge's allowance of a new [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 3:48 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] heard oral arguments Thursday regarding the government's power to designate "enemy combatants" and subject them to military detention without charge. [read post]
18 Jul 2007, 1:48 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled [PDF text] 2-1 Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] did not improperly enter into consent agreements with "animal feeding operations" (AFOs). [read post]
17 Aug 2006, 12:14 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [official website] on Thursday sided with several states and the federal government [opinion, PDF] when it found that energy company Cinergy Corp. [read post]
24 Jun 2005, 1:12 pm
[JURIST] A three judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected claims by thirteen states that the Bush administration's decision to let older power plants emit more pollution violates the Clean Air Act [text]. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 3:42 am by Matt Glenn
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that a Pennsylvania prosecutor cannot file child pornography charges against a teenage girl whose topless photo was found on a number of her schoolmates' cell phones, upholding a preliminary injunction. [read post]
30 Aug 2006, 9:13 am
[JURIST] A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld [opinion, PDF] a pesticide rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website], saying that the regulation does not violate the Clean Air Act [EPA materials] even though it may conflict with an international environmental treaty signed by the US. [read post]
18 Oct 2006, 1:42 am
[JURIST] The Jewish organization Kahane Chai [CFR backgrounder] was properly designated as a terrorist organization by the US Department of State [official website] in 1997 and former Secretary of State Colin Powell [official profile] in 2003, a federal appeals court held Tuesday. [read post]
21 Mar 2008, 12:57 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Friday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee[party website] for refusing to seat Florida's Democratic delegation at its national convention. [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 9:00 am
[JURIST] A three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments Tuesday regarding the constitutionality of a private body established by Congress to oversee accounting practices in publicly traded companies. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 10:00 am by law librarian
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit tossed out convictions in a cockfighting case — because a juror used Wikipedia to research an element of the crime. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 3:43 am
[JURIST] The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that the online community craigslist [community website] is not liable for third-party postings to its website which attempt to discriminate against people seeking housing. [read post]
9 Aug 2005, 12:44 pm
[JURIST] A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals [official website] in Atlanta overturned the convictions and sentences of five accused Cuban spies [advocacy website] Tuesday, ruling [PDF opinion] that their trial in Miami was biased due to community prejudice and extensive media coverage. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 12:21 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday granted  [order, PDF] prosecutors' petition for an en banc rehearing on whether the insider trading conviction of former Qwest Communications [corporate website] CEO Joseph Nacchio [JURIST news archive] should be overturned. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 3:20 pm
[JURIST] Judges on a US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] panel questioned how the Federal Communications Commission [official website] enforces indecency standards [FCC materials] during oral arguments Wednesday in a challenge brought by the Fox television network. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 1:40 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] Wednesday dismissed [PDF text] a lawsuit brought by Kentucky high school student Timothy Morrison against the Boyd County Board of Education [official website] over a 2004 policy that banned Morrison and other students from expressing their opposition to homosexuality. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 3:42 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled [PDF text] Friday that the FBI's conduct during an 18-hour raid on the congressional offices of Rep. [read post]
25 May 2007, 10:32 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld [opinion, PDF] the fraud convictions of Adelphia Communications [corporate website] founder John J. [read post]