The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

Drone speech, roofer speech, and quasi-judicial speech.

The effort by Missouri to enjoin the Biden administration's "jawboning" of social media companies has reached the Supreme Court. The Solicitor General filed a long brief seeking a stay of the Fifth Circuit's injunction and explaining why cert should be granted. The Court granted cert and the stay (the latter…

Carjacking, arson, and obscured license tags.

The laws require major social media platforms to host content they disapprove of for substantive reasons.

The badly flawed lower court ruling defies the Supreme Court's landmark 2019 decision forbidding such Catch-22 traps, and threatens the property rights of large numbers of people.

Monday, the Fifth Circuit panel that decided Missouri v. Biden—which held that some federal government actions improperly "coerced or significantly encouraged" platforms to restrict certain user speech—issued an order saying that it granted a petition for rehearing. This meant that the panel would likely reconsider the decision, though it wasn't…

Music theory, cell phone seizures, and gratuitous strip searches.

Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law.

The Fifth Circuit was right to rule it was illegal for the federal government to coerce social media firms, but wrong to uphold a Texas law requiring those firms to post material they prefer to keep out.