The Latest Breaking News from Eighth Circuit

Court relies on Rahimi in support of liberalized gun carry permits.

Pepper spray, carry permits, and adult cabaret.

Dishwashers, Nazi-looted art, and an ag-gag mixed bag.

From today's opinion in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds, by Judge Colloton, joined by Judges Grasz and Kobes: In Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds (8th Cir. 2021) ("ALDF I"), this court considered an Iowa law that prohibited (1) accessing an agricultural production facility by false pretenses and (2)…

From today's opinion in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds by Judge Grasz, joined by Judges Colloton and Kobes: Iowa enacted a trespass-surveillance law penalizing anyone who, while trespassing, "knowingly places or uses a camera or electronic surveillance device that transmits or records images or data while the device is…

Gag orders, sleeper berths, and a prosecutor's "dodgy side hustle."

The Court saw no reason to consider the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that the states lacked standing.

From Parents Defending Education v. Linn Mar Community School Dist., decided Sept. 29 by the Eighth Circuit (Judge Steven Colloton, joined by Judges Duane Benton and Jane Kelly): The disputed policy is entitled "Administrative Regulations Regarding Transgender and Students Nonconforming to Gender Role Stereotypes." The policy was adopted in April…

3,000 years of overdetention, chief lickspittle, and the wrong side of the road.