The Latest Breaking News from Fifth Circuit

Deposition misconduct, grumpy interrogatories, and protesting the Lawyers' Mall.

"Of particular interest are historical gun regulations applicable to intoxicated or impaired individuals."

In Texas, there are several single-judge divisions. Over the past few years, I've written about those courts in places like Amarillo, Victoria, Wichita Falls, and Lubbock. But one single-judge division, which is closest to home, has not attracted nearly as much attention. The Galveston Division of the Southern District of…

Police baptisms, candy crushing, and reasonable violations of clearly established law.

While a Supreme Court order continues to ensure the drug is still widely available, the issue returned Wednesday to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals as lawyers for both sides urged the court to act.

The stay is only temporary, and could be quickly lifted. But it's still a negative sign for the plaintiffs in the case.

Sidewalks to nowhere, vitriolic deliberations, and precedential nonprecedents.

The decision is at odds with Supreme Court precedent, and endangers the constitutional rights of millions of people. This brief urging the court to reverse it was filed by the Cato Institute and myself.

Loss and woe.

On Friday evening, the Supreme Court granted a complete stay of the District Court's order in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. And that stay will remain in effect while the proceedings in the Fifth Circuit continue. For now, the status quo continues. Justice Thomas would have denied the application…

Last night the Supreme Court entered a short but important order staying an order issued by the Northern District of Texas in the mifepristone litigation "pending disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of…