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A Federal appellate court upheld a Texas voter identification law, thus reversing a lower court ruling that had found it allegedly discriminated against racial minorities. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals thus approved on a 2-1 vote Texas legislators' efforts to address faults previously found by the courts.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the 15th circuit court judge since President Donald Trump took office 15 months ago, far outpacing the rate at his recent predecessors were able to fill vacancies in the powerful appeals courts in the early months of their administrations. The trend has potentially significant political consequences for the direction of the country's most influential federal benches at a time when several will be weighing questions about key administration policies, ranging from immigration to the environment.
John Floyd spent 36 years locked up for a New Orleans murder he insisted he didn't commit. A federal judge sees things the same way and ordered his release from jail last year and a new trial.
The nationwide vacatur of the Department of Labor "investment advice" fiduciary definition and related exemptions by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on March 15, 2018, does not bring an end to the challenges created by this extraordinary rulemaking. Both plan providers and plan sponsors will face significant responsibilities in unwinding the programs they had put in place to comply with the Final Rule-if the vacatur stands-and reinstating the predecessor ERISA regulation in their compliance programs, which apparently is to coincide with an uptick in "best interest" rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission and among the states.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed sanctions of an Austin attorney for a three-year suspension and more than $175,000, describing his contentions on appeal as "frivolous." U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Lane of the Western District of Texas had ordered the sanctions against solo practitioner Omar Rosales in December 2016 after finding that Rosales had "defamed opposing counsel with false and abusive statements, attempted to derail the administration of justice with frivolous motions and submitted fabricated evidence to subvert proceedings in this court."
For those who respect the rule of law and value America's sovereignty, recent developments in California have been cause for dismay. The governor and several mayors there have thumbed their noses at our federal immigration laws, to the point where they are now actually tipping off illegal aliens about operations by federal immigration officers.
Ed Sills sent this one-pager from MALDEF to his mailing list; there's no link and I couldn't find it on the MALDEF webpage, so I'm just going to copy and paste here: On March 13, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its ruling on whether SB4 should be allowed to take effect while the lawsuit moves through court. Most of SB4 is in effect today.
The fiduciary rule may be taken off the books as a result of the ruling, and an SEC fiduciary standard wouldn't cover products not registered as securities Indexed annuities - and the intermediaries that sell them - appear to be the biggest benefactors of an appellate court's decision last week to vacate the Department of Labor fiduciary rule. While observers are divided on the ruling's implications, a consensus seems to be growing that the fiduciary rule would be erased nationwide if the DOL doesn't appeal - a potential outcome given the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda.
A harrowing journey for the Labor Department's fiduciary rule has become even more treacherous in the last few days, following a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the regulation . Will the DOL appeal the 5th Circuit decision? The agency has until April 30 to request a rehearing of the appeal before the entire 17-judge 5th Circuit.
In a 2-1 split decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the rule late Thursday afternoon, InvestmentNews reports . This overturns a Dallas district court's decision.
A company may resume construction of a crude oil pipeline in a Louisiana swamp, a project that has been on hold for nearly three weeks, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to allow it to resume construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp. A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was scheduled to hear arguments on March 13 on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC's request.
As Texas prepares to implement a law banning "sanctuary city" policies in that state, immigrant advocates say they will be documenting how the law is enforced as they continue their legal fight against it. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the law known as SB4 can take effect over the objections of a lower court , which issued an injunction in August 2017 that kept the law on hold.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that a Texas businessman who was sentenced to two years in prison for bankruptcy fraud may use the sale of the proceeds of his house to pay his criminal defense attorneys, rejecting a U.S. bankruptcy trustee's attempts to claim the home sale proceeds as part of his estate. Curtis Harold DeBerry, the former owner of a failed produce company in Boerne, Texas, was eventually sentenced to two years in prison last year for hiding assets from creditors in bankruptcy.
NEW ORLEANS >> A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to allow it to resume construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp. A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC's request.
NEW ORLEANS A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to allow it to resume construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp.
In Xitronix Corp. v. KLA-Tencor Corp., No. 2016-2746 , the Federal Circuit considered whether it or a regional circuit had jurisdiction over an appeal of a case raising only Walker Process antitrust claims.
A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana asked a federal appeals court Friday to lift a judge's order that temporarily halts pipeline construction work in a swamp. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an "emergency stay" that would suspend the judge's ruling while it appeals.
A federal appeals court has rejected Louisiana's contention that the federal government should pay $586 million to restore barrier islands and wetlands damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld decisions by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, an arbitration panel and a district court.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John David Battaglia who is scheduled for execution Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Huntsville, Texas, for the May 2001 slayings of his two daughters. This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows John David Battaglia who is scheduled for execution Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Huntsville, Texas, for the May 2001 slayings of his two daughters.