The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

The appeals court's unpublished order avoids some of the district court's errors, but still has some significant problems, especially with regard to standing.

Another essential post.

The plaintiff states lack standing to challenge the Biden Administration's interim Social Cost of Carbon estimates

Disparaging scientists, disappearing warrants, and disgruntled lawyers.

The badly flawed ruling defies the Supreme Court's landmark 2019 decision forbidding such Catch-22 traps.

Anti-Muslim tweets, inactive warrants, and anti-Muslim prison guards.

Another opinion exposing the Food and Drug Administration's vaping problem.

Herring monitors, state-created dangers, and kicking out the jams.

The Fifth Circuit's decision in United States v. Rahimi, which held that the federal statute prohibiting possession of a firearm by a person subject to a domestic violence restraining order violates the Second Amendment, has managed to stay in the news for longer than most circuit court decisions. On March…

David Lat's Original Jurisdiction newsletter has, as usual, excellent and detailed coverage. I started quoting but then realized that I couldn't excerpt it and still do the matter justice; and quoting the whole thing would be unfair to Lat as an author. I therefore very much encourage you to read…

Speedy trials, political advertising, and horseracing.