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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. On October 1, 1981, under Pub. L. 96–452, the Fifth Circuit was split: Alabama, Georgia, and Florida were moved to the new Eleventh Circuit.
Both O'Connor and the 5th Circuit agreed with that argument, and the 5th Circuit rejected the government's claim that HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra could fix the problem retroactively by "ratifying ...
Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that plaintiffs must present a "plausible" cause of action. Alongside Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (and together known as Twiqbal), Iqbal raised the threshold which plaintiffs needed to meet.
On May 16, 2008, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court ruling that Section 230 shielded MySpace from the plaintiffs' claims. [1] The circuit court added that per Green v. America Online, Inc., Section 230 protects against claims of "failure to protect" the users of an online service. [6] The court held that Section 230 ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit this week reaffirmed its conclusion that the federal government violated the Second Amendment when it prosecuted a Mississippi cannabis consumer for ...
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday night again issued a hold on SB 4 — a Texas law that would authorize state and local police to arrest and even deport people suspected of being in the ...
McKesson v. Doe, 592 U.S. 1 (2020), [1] was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that temporarily halted a lawsuit by a police officer against an activist associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and instructed the lower federal court (the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) to seek clarification of state law from the Louisiana Supreme Court. [2]
The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is deciding whether the buoys can remain in the Rio Grande while the federal lawsuit plays out.