The federal ban on handgun sales to adults younger than 21 violates the Second Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled today. That law is "unconstitutional in light of our ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has broken new ground again — but perhaps not in the way you might think. While that court has issued extreme rulings aligned with Republican Party preferences ...

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The U.S. 5 th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a decades-old precedent that allows different racial and ethnic groups to form coalitions to seek legal remedies under the Voting Rights Act. The ...

June 10 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Monday said it decided not to adopt what would have been a first-of-its-kind rule at the appellate level regulating the use of generative ...

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A US appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional, finding Universal Service fees on phone bills to be a “misbegotten tax.” If not ...

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Is Spearheading a Judicial Power Grab The rogue 5th Circuit Court has helped undermine the separation of powers, established precedent, and principled legal reasoning ...