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Latest News in Appellate

  • April 24, 2026

    5th Circ. Vacates Injunction On Texas Migrant Arrest Law

    A majority of the full Fifth Circuit Friday vacated a district court order that blocked a Texas law allowing state officers to arrest and deport migrants, saying immigrants' rights organizations that challenged the law's constitutionality lacked standing to sue.

  • April 24, 2026

    NJ Court Backs Broker's $1.74M Cannabis Lease Fee Win

    A commercial landlord and property manager must pay $1.7 million to a brokerage firm, despite their claims that it was not the one who landed Green Thumb Industries as a tenant, a New Jersey appeals court ruled, saying that was not the deal the parties signed.

  • April 24, 2026

    Justices To Focus On Alien Tort Statute In Cisco Spying Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on Tuesday with implications for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, and decide whether the Ninth Circuit was right to reinstate an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging that Cisco Systems Inc. helped the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful crackdown on the Falun Gong religious movement.

  • April 24, 2026

    DC Circ. Says Trump Can't Bypass Asylum Claims At Border

    President Donald Trump's proclamation declaring an "invasion" at the southern border went too far by blocking individuals from seeking asylum, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday, saying he cannot supplant the Immigration and Nationality Act's "exclusive and mandatory" removal procedures.

  • April 24, 2026

    Tenn. Abortion Ban Trial Taken Off Calendar Following Appeal

    A Tennessee state court has canceled a trial scheduled to begin Monday over a suit challenging the state's abortion ban and seeking clarification on when a physician can legally terminate a high-risk pregnancy.

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