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The U.S. Supreme Court has considered dozens of emergency petitions involving executive policies since President Donald Trump's return to office. While justices often defend their emergency rulings as stop-gap measures, people at the center of those cases — who've lost their legal status, jobs, or federal funding — say that even interim decisions have had lasting effects on their lives.
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September 16, 2026
A Nielsen Co. attorney on Wedensday blasted a federal judge's order that he said dictated the terms of the company's sale of nationwide radio ratings to Cumulus Media, telling a Second Circuit panel that the new order was "completely different" from an injunction the appellate court had upheld.
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September 16, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a case brought by a group of anonymous programmers who accused OpenAI and Microsoft of taking source code from public repositories on GitHub, ruling that the programmers had not sufficiently put the court on notice that it wished to pursue a theory related to artificial intelligence inputs.
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September 16, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel revived a doctor's constitutional due process challenge to a 10-year bar the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services imposed on his Medicare billing privileges, finding a district court wrongly concluded he had to first exhaust his administrative remedies.
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September 16, 2026
The Tenth Circuit has cleared the way for Denver Water to begin filling an expanded reservoir that holds the city's water supply, finding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not err when approving a permit for the project.
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September 16, 2026
A man who won more than $1 billion in a lottery cannot keep his identity secret in a lawsuit over a nondisclosure agreement, a panel of the First Circuit has ruled, with the judge who authored the decision using a pseudonym to prove a point before disclosing her name in a footnote.
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September 16, 2026
Pennsylvania's justices contemplated pummeling one another with canes, gavels and hot dogs as they grappled with what transforms a mundane object into an "instrument of crime" during arguments Wednesday.
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September 16, 2026
EOFlow Co. Ltd. says the Federal Circuit shouldn't rethink a panel's decision allowing it to escape a $59.4 million trade secret judgment, saying insulin product developer Insulet Corp. is trying to dress up factual disputes as issues needing the full court's attention.
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September 16, 2026
The Sixth Circuit's decision reversing a $31.8 million jury judgment against cannabis giant Curaleaf on the grounds that marijuana is federally illegal is bound to have ramifications for industry players who seek redress in federal courts, attorneys told Law360.
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September 16, 2026
A commercial laundry services company asked the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a Florida federal court's ruling that upheld a $184,000 payment to the IRS under the Affordable Care Act's employer shared responsibility provisions, saying it didn't receive notice of the penalty soon enough to lodge an effective appeal.
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September 16, 2026
The Trump administration told the U.S. Supreme Court it backs the GEO Group Inc.'s challenge of a ruling that allowed Washington state to impose its minimum wage on a voluntary work program at the company's immigrant detention facility in Tacoma.
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September 16, 2026
A Florida appellate court revived a lawsuit from a Taiwanese yacht builder alleging its insurer has refused to indemnify the manufacturer for repairs to a vessel damaged in a fire on its way to Florida, ruling Wednesday that the policy did not require the dispute to be tried in a Taiwan court.
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September 16, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has sided with a group of chemical companies and vacated a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that banned nearly all uses of methylene chloride, saying the agency went too far in evaluating the substance as a whole instead of its uses.
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September 16, 2026
A California federal court has allowed Alaska Airlines to immediately appeal a ruling that the state's sick leave protection law covers its flight attendants, pausing a proposed class action while the Ninth Circuit considers a question that could determine whether the case can proceed at all.
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September 15, 2026
Two brothers who lost their bid to hold an Illinois county liable for a former coroner's secret skull-collecting practices asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to use their case as the vehicle for settling a deep circuit split they say a recent Seventh Circuit ruling "cemented."
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September 15, 2026
The D.C. Circuit tore into the Trump administration Tuesday morning after a government attorney refused to answer how long an Office of Refugee Resettlement approval of a sponsor for an "unaccompanied" child lasts, even when the court whittled the time down to a matter of hours.
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September 15, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a detective's explanation of the child sex abuse term "grooming" to jurors did not taint their verdict convicting a man of raping a young girl.
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September 15, 2026
A Wyoming federal judge properly denied Rare Breed's attempt to enjoin a rival firearms company's sales while litigating a patent infringement and false advertising suit, the Federal Circuit said Tuesday.
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September 15, 2026
An Ohio appeals court has ruled that a nearly 18-year delay in bringing a rape charge against a man does not violate his right to a speedy trial, because the right only begins after a defendant has been formally accused of a crime.
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September 15, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday appeared inclined to uphold the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's broad grid planning overhaul amid a raft of challenges from certain states, transmission providers and consumer advocates, with standing issues taking center stage.
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September 15, 2026
The Florida federal judge who barred President Donald Trump and others from citing a settlement resolving what she characterized as a sham $10 billion case against his own Internal Revenue Service won't pause her sanctions order while the president appeals to the Eleventh Circuit.
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September 15, 2026
A Texas appeals court has dismissed claims against an Indiana freight broker accused of negligently hiring a trucking company whose driver allegedly caused a crash in Colorado, saying the incident was not sufficiently tied to the broker's Texas activities.
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September 15, 2026
D.C. Circuit judges on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Department of Transportation reasonably justified the safety rationale for new restrictions on commercial driver's licenses for foreign truckers or whether it disproportionately relied on individuals' immigration status to promulgate an "exclusionary" rule.
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September 15, 2026
A Fourth Circuit judge on Tuesday said a voter and the North Carolina State Board of Elections are arguing a tale of two cases in a free speech fight over the Tar Heel state's ban on ballot selfies, saying neither side appears to be in agreement about what level of judicial review to use.
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September 15, 2026
Federal Communications Commission staff on Tuesday sought comment on whether to set aside earlier guidance calling for the "lowest unit" rate for committee-backed political ads as the Fourth Circuit considers a Democratic bid to force the commission to review the policy.
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September 15, 2026
An Eighth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived a doctor's suit seeking an order limiting a Minnesota state medical board's ability to investigate him for his public statements related to the COVID-19 pandemic, finding a district court "set the bar too high" at the dismissal stage.