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August 17, 2026
The Tenth Circuit will not reconsider its decision upholding convicted murderer Brenda Andrew's death sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court revived her claim that the use of sexualized and gender-stereotyped evidence at trial violated her constitutional rights.
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August 17, 2026
The Second Circuit said Monday it has joined "a growing chorus of our sister circuits" in finding a constitutional right to record law enforcement activity in public, as well as police buildings, but still turned away a self-described First Amendment auditor's lawsuit over his arrest while filming the exterior of a Connecticut police station.
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August 17, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit reversed a win on Monday for Royal Caribbean in a suit from cruise ship workers who alleged they lost 401(k) savings because of shoddy target-date investment funds, holding that a lower court erred in handing the cruise company an early win in a challenge to the prudence of their investment management.
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August 17, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court is not interested in reconsidering how it worded its June opinion upholding the Federal Communications Commission's authority to issue monetary penalties, despite Verizon arguing that the ruling left it between a rock and a hard place concerning the $47 million fine it already paid.
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August 17, 2026
Federal immigration regulations do not prevent the government from deporting an unlawfully present noncitizen who is married to a U.S. citizen and is seeking to avoid being statutorily barred from reentering the country amid the green card process, the Fourth Circuit ruled.
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