357 ABA Journal 4th Circuit Court articles.
Jul 9, 2019 12:49 PM CDT
Jun 25, 2019 4:31 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has reinstated a disability lawsuit filed on behalf of a boy who was not allowed to eat his home-prepared, gluten-free meal at a restaurant in Colonial…
Jun 4, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
A second federal appeals court has rejected the federal government’s rescission of a program that defers deportation for immigrants brought to the country illegally as minors.
The 4th U.S. Circuit…
May 17, 2019 1:18 PM CDT
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis has upheld a Springfield, Missouri, ordinance that bans women but not men from exposing their nipples in public.
The appeals…
May 8, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
Updated: A federal appeals court has ruled that the conditions of death-row solitary confinement that once existed in Virginia prisons violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
…May 6, 2019 11:00 AM CDT
A former pro se litigant had some high-powered help when he asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider what kind of explanation courts must provide to unrepresented people.
Among those…
Apr 30, 2019 4:05 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether its decision banning mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles can be used to upend discretionary life-without-parole sentences imposed on…
Mar 18, 2019 1:30 PM CDT
A Williams & Connolly litigation partner who was confirmed Tuesday to a seat on a federal appeals court becomes the youngest federal judge in the country.
Allison Jones Rushing was…
Mar 6, 2019 9:20 AM CST
The Supreme Court has a chance to clarify whether symbols of religion on government property violate the First Amendment. The establishment clause has returned to the court in American Legion v. American Humanist Association, to be argued Feb. 27.
Feb 26, 2019 6:00 AM CST
A federal appeals court quoted The Lorax last Thursday when it ruled that the U.S. Forest Service violated federal law by issuing permits for a pipeline to cross the Appalachian…
Dec 17, 2018 12:02 PM CST
A federal appeals court decided it didn’t need oral arguments to dispense with an appeal filed by former Circuit Judge Richard Posner on behalf of a one-time pro se litigant.
…Aug 2, 2018 3:48 PM CDT
Some form of individualized suspicion is needed before the government can use forensic software to search a cellphone seized at the border, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
The…
May 10, 2018 4:20 PM CDT The great church-state debate appears to be headed to the high court. At issue is the constitutionality of so-called legislator-led prayer before public meetings. With federal appeals courts divided, the justices may soon consider whether local officials violate the establishment clause when they open meetings with prayers. Feb 1, 2018 2:20 AM CST Dec 28, 2017 8:00 AM CSTCircuit split on constitutionality of legislator-led prayer may lead to SCOTUS review
Chemerinsky: The most important SCOTUS stories of 2017
The end of the year inevitably brings lists, such as of best movies and books, so I cannot resist looking back at 2017 and identifying the most important stories concerning the U.S. Supreme Court.
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