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Near the end of last term, Chief Justice John Roberts voiced his frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court's lengthening oral argument sessions and suggested the justices might tweak their format over the summer. But as the new term begins Monday, the court has yet to announce any changes, and advocates see little need for improvement.
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October 20, 2026
The Fifth Circuit ordered a new trial Friday for a woman who was halted while speaking at a Louisiana local council meeting, saying defense lawyers for two council members threw "a skunk into the jury box" with a bevy of improper maneuvers.
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October 20, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan criticized her conservative colleagues' approach to deciding election law cases Tuesday, saying they often rule without considering the real-world consequences of their decisions.
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October 20, 2026
A New York judge has thrown out Mariah Carey's brother's $20 million defamation suit claiming his sister defamed him in her 2020 memoir, "The Meaning of Mariah Carey," ruling that he hasn't adequately alleged she knowingly or recklessly made false statements about him.
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October 20, 2026
A Washington state judge on Tuesday granted Meta Platforms Inc.'s request to pause a permanent injunction requiring "full compliance" with a state political advertising disclosure law, agreeing to put the requirement on hold while the company asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review the law's constitutionality.
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October 20, 2026
Zimbabwe is fighting European investors' efforts to summarily affirm a ruling enforcing some $441 million in arbitral awards they won after their land was seized under a controversial land reform program, telling the D.C. Circuit the case is not that simple.
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October 20, 2026
Colorado's justices appeared hesitant Tuesday to limit a trial court's ability to impose restitution in cases where prosecutors fail to make a diligent effort to bring restitution information to sentencing, but pressed the state on what ruling would make victims whole and incentivize prosecutors to meet statutory deadlines.
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October 20, 2026
A man who has been stripped of his citizenship after the government claimed that his naturalized father had not been in the country long enough before he was born struggled Tuesday to convince the D.C. Circuit that the government's evidence for his father being abroad was hearsay.
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October 20, 2026
A split Eleventh Circuit panel held Monday that current and former Florida school board members cannot invoke legislative privilege to avoid testifying about why they removed specific library books, finding that the privilege protects their adoption of book removal policies but not the decisions applying those policies to particular titles.
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October 20, 2026
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday sounded dubious of a claim brought by energy consumers alleging that dozens of companies involved in the natural gas industry tortiously interfered with their electricity contracts by decreasing natural gas output during a deadly winter storm.
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October 20, 2026
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, ex-national security officials and Catholic theologians on Tuesday all urged the full D.C. Circuit to rehear Anthropic's challenge to the Trump administration's decision to designate the company a supply chain risk, claiming that the company's position strengthens the U.S. government's global edge in artificial intelligence and conforms with Catholic teaching.
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October 20, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday declined to revive a Title VII religious discrimination suit by a former 3M healthcare business division employee who was terminated after refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because of her beliefs, finding that her own statements show that there's no conflict between her beliefs and 3M's policy.
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October 20, 2026
Iowa and 21 other Republican-led states urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to grant the Trump administration's petition to review whether district courts have authority over habeas petitions from noncitizens challenging their detention.
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October 20, 2026
A Michigan pharmacist serving an eight-year prison sentence for medical fraud is entitled to a new trial, his attorney told a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday, arguing that a key defense witness in the case was threatened by the government and dissuaded from testifying.
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October 20, 2026
A Second Circuit panel affirmed a lower court's decision Tuesday, refusing to block Connecticut from enforcing a cap on generic and off-patent drug prices while a trade association for drug wholesalers challenges the statute.
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October 20, 2026
Counsel for AirPro Diagnostics LLC urged a Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's summary judgment ruling and allow its breach of contract suit to proceed to trial, arguing that a rival company violated a mutual party agreement by using confidential information disclosed during merger negotiations to develop a competing diagnostic tool.
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October 20, 2026
Energy infrastructure firm Magellan Midstream Partners LP and Powder Springs Logistics have agreed to pay $20.3 million to resolve a judgment against them after a jury trial loss in a patent infringement case brought in Delaware federal court by Sunoco related to gasoline blending patents.
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October 20, 2026
The Third Circuit seemed receptive Tuesday to Drexel University's bid for a new trial in a professor's pay discrimination suit, with the judges hinting a trial court may have gone too far by imposing Equal Pay Act liability on the school for not complying with an order to turn over salary information.
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October 20, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court will hear cases in its new term that could change the procedure for winning a strategic lawsuit against public participation and clarify what it means to be "in custody" for the purposes of habeas jurisdiction.
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October 20, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has ruled that a decision to "slam some sense" into a Virginia man by revoking his supervised release for numerous drug-related violations is procedurally reasonable and does not violate federal sentencing guidelines.
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October 20, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday joined a host of other appellate courts in determining healthcare providers were not "acting under" the federal government when they created patient web portals, finding actions alleging hospitals improperly shared patient information belonged in state court.
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October 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court asked Southern Co. pension plan participants to weigh in on their employer's petition for review of an Eleventh Circuit decision that revived their proposed class action alleging outdated life expectancy data caused them to lose out on benefits, indicating the justices' possible interest in the case.
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October 20, 2026
Fencing company Digger Specialties says the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't take up a challenge to a Federal Circuit finding that invalidated a patent it was accused of infringing, hitting back at a rival's argument that the circuit court ruling produced an "absurd result."
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October 20, 2026
Google took one final swing Monday at upending a D.C. federal judge's rulings faulting it for monopolizing online search and forcing it to prop up search engine rivals with data and syndicated results, telling the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Department of Justice's case targets earned market dominance.
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October 20, 2026
The founder of a plastic manufacturing company asked the Fifth Circuit not to dismiss his bid to restore a tax deduction the IRS denied on premiums the company paid for its captive insurance arrangement, saying the court has jurisdiction over the case despite the government's claim to the contrary.
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October 20, 2026
The Eighth Circuit appeared skeptical Tuesday of investors' bid to revive allegations that medical device company Medtronic failed to properly communicate problems with an insulin pump device it manufactured and was ultimately recalled, with judges questioning arguments that certain interactions between the company and regulators weren't properly disclosed.