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Latest News in Appellate

  • November 14, 2025

    4th Circ. Again Denies Man's Bid For Deportation Relief

    The Fourth Circuit has again refused to revive a Mexican native's bid for deportation relief, saying his Virginia conviction for receiving stolen property is still a crime involving moral turpitude despite a change in how ambiguous laws should be interpreted.

  • November 14, 2025

    9th Circ. Judge Rips Feds For 'Trying To Suppress Speech'

    A Ninth Circuit panel expressed doubts Friday about the Trump administration's request to reconsider an order reinstating billions of dollars in University of California research grants in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, with one judge objecting that "the government is trying to suppress, to penalize speech."

  • November 14, 2025

    7th Circ. Questions 'Pizza Puff' Maker's Injunction Win

    A Seventh Circuit panel seemed skeptical Friday that a lower court held Little Caesar's to the correct standard when it blocked the chain from using the term "pizza puff" to describe its muffin-pizza products.

  • November 14, 2025

    Pa. Budget Ends State's Bid To Join Cap-And-Trade Compact

    Pennsylvania legislators have announced that their long-awaited 2025 budget included provisions ending the state's bid to join a multistate carbon cap-and-trade compact, mooting years of litigation over whether the credits that fossil-fuel power plants would purchase were a fee or a tax.

  • November 14, 2025

    Families' 5th Circ. Bid To Void Boeing-DOJ Deal A Long Shot

    Families of victims of the 737 Max 8 crashes have asked the Fifth Circuit to overrule the U.S. Department of Justice's refusal to criminally prosecute Boeing for conspiring to defraud safety regulators, but experts say such a move may be a long shot.

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