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At the time of its creation, the Fifth Circuit covered Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. On June 25, 1948, the Panama Canal Zone was added to the Fifth Circuit by 62 Stat. 870. The Fifth Circuit gained appellate jurisdiction over the United States District Court for the Canal Zone.
Southern Bldg. Code Congress Int'l, Inc., 293 F.3d 791 (5th Cir. 2002) (en banc), was a 2002 en banc 9-6 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, about the scope of copyright protection for building codes and by implication other privately drafted laws adopted by states and municipal governments. [1]
For the Supreme Court record listing all proceedings and orders arising from the July 6, 2017 U.S. docketing of the appeal of the April 4, 2017 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (lower court, case no. 16–70013), see this record, accessed January 6, 2022. The petition was certiorari denied on October 10, 2017 ...
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals make guesses as to how the Texas Supreme Court would rule on an issue of state law that is still unsettled due to a conflict among the intermediate courts of appeals. [1] Such an issue may also be referred to the Texas Supreme Court by certified question, [2] but this procedure is rarely employed.
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by area, after Alaska, and the largest state within the contiguous United States, at 268,820 square miles (696,200 km 2). If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 39th-largest. [150] It ranks 26th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size. Texas is in the south central part of the United ...
As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 126 of the United States Code from the US House of Representatives; As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 126 of the United States Code from the LII; Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as amended (PDF/details) in the GPO Statute Compilations collection
In 2014, Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis threw out the congressional map for violating Florida's 2010 Amendment 6 to the state Constitution, commonly called the Fair Districts Amendment. [2] The ruling specifically applied to FL-5 and FL-10.
A Texas state judge also blocked Abbott's order on October 15, and a state appeals court upheld that decision on October 23. Paxton then sought emergency relief from the Texas Supreme Court, which backed the Governor and lifted the temporary injunction in an October 27 decision with no dissent. [155] [156] [157]