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The Fifth District Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the case of a former teacher currently serving a prison sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing students and struck down his most recent appeal.
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans scheduled arguments Monday in the ACLU's challenge of the system New Orleans uses to legally represent poor defendants. The group sued in 2016 on behalf of three defendants who couldn't afford a lawyer.
Last week in Mance v. Sessions , the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied, by one vote, a request for a rehearing of the case by the full panel of the court, and confirmed the reversal of a lower court decision that had ruled the interstate handgun sale ban to be unconstitutional.
The Connecticut Coalition Against Gun Violence is asking Attorney General George Jepsen to stop a Texas nonprofit from releasing to the public its blueprints for 3D printing guns on Aug. 1. "On that date, anyone with access to a consumer 3D printer can potentially make guns at home, undetectable by metal detectors, untraceable by law enforcement," Jeremy Stein, executive director of CAGV, said. Groups like Connecticut Against Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence worry the guns would be printed without background checks or serial numbers, making them untraceable and undetectable by metal detectors.
This law did not result in a return to the stereotypical days of the wild, wild west - when people settled their differences with shootouts on the street at high noon. The Lone Star State now has open carry laws, which allows licensed gun owners to carry their firearms in plain view.
Three University of Texas professors are asking a federal appeals court in New Orleans to revive their lawsuit challenging a law allowing concealed handguns on campus. The law requires public universities to allow people with concealed-handgun licenses to carry weapons on campus.
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a Houston gang member on death row for killing the driver of car on a Houston freeway so he could steal the vehicle's fancy wheels. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision moves 30-year-old Teddrick Batiste a step closer to execution for the April 2009 slaying of 26-year-old Horace Holiday.
A Texas death row inmate who confessed to four slayings and at least nine rapes is set for lethal injection Wednesday amid concerns from his lawyers that his health issues make it likely his execution will cause him unconstitutional pain. No one disputes Danny Paul Bible's guilt for a Houston woman's slaying nearly 40 years ago that went unsolved for two decades before a jury convicted him and sentenced him to death.
In this April 27, 2018, file photo, a old logging canal cuts through Bayou Sorrel in the Atchafalaya River Basin in Louisiana. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC's building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana expects to complete the construction project by October if a federal appeals court doesn't order another halt to the work.
During the past two years, we have written about potential litigation arising under the Department of Labor's, first proposed, then adopted fiduciary rule . In the first of those articles, when the Rule was initially proposed, we predicted the following as to sales of index and other annuities: "From a litigation perspective, this change to a fiduciary status for the sales agent is substantial and in many cases will afford litigants unhappy with investment results or the ultimate characteristics of a particular form of annuity, the opportunity to second-guess the original decision applying a significant range of issues."
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death-row inmate Andre Thomas, from Texoma, Texas. Attorneys for Thomas, who removed his only eye and ate it in a bizarre outburst several years ago, are arguing to a federal appeals court that he's too mentally ill to be executed for killing his estranged wife's 13-month old daughter.
Texas will not be required to meet a 45-day deadline to implement online voter registration for drivers - for now. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that mandated a voter registration system that would allow drivers to register to vote when they renew their driver's licenses online.
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a Houston police officer's convicted killer whose attorneys argued the presence of uniformed officers during his trial prevented him from receiving a fair trial. Lawyers for 50-year-old death row inmate Shelton Jones told the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that nearly two dozen officers who attended Jones' trial daily implied to jurors that they must convict him of fatally shooting Houston Sgt.
Lawyers for the state of Louisiana asked a federal appeals court Thursday to uphold a law requiring that doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The arguments involve a law blocked by a federal judge in Baton Rouge last year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a similar Texas law.
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Fratta, former suburban Houston police officer on death row for hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife in 1994. In a ruling late Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Fratta lost an appeal moving him a step closer to execution.
A divided panel of one of the most conservative federal courts in the country held on Friday that a Texas voter suppression law is legal and should remain in effect. Moreover, should Judge Edith Jones' reasoning for the panel be embraced by the Supreme Court, it could enable state lawmakers to rescue laws enacted for the very purpose of disenfranchising voters of color.
A court hearing over whether construction of a crude oil pipeline in an environmentally fragile Louisiana swamp will continue focused on whether enough would be done to make up for environmental impacts from the project. An attorney for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC told a federal appeals court panel in Houston Monday that it'll be providing "appropriate compensation" by re-establishing forested wetlands elsewhere in the swamp.
A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a judge's order that had halted construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Monday by attorneys for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, federal regulators and environmental groups opposed to the project.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday allowed Texas to implement a law requiring photo identification at the ballot box, reversing a lower court decision that blocked the measure on the grounds it could be discriminatory against racial minorities. In a 2-1 decision, a panel from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, which was designed as a fix for previous voter ID legislation struck down for being discriminatory.