Opinions and Developments from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
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We provide detailed summaries of all U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinions that are designated for publication; disposition and panel details for all unpublished decisions; a monthly tabulation of opinion statistics from the Fifth Circuit; and occasional additional analysis of opinions and Court dynamics.
We report after each month on interesting statistics from the data we generate from the daily opinion summaries from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and at the end of each court year (Oct.-Sept.) we will aggregate that–all of which provides useful insights into the inner workings of the Court, the relative…
Even with one of the en banc arguments canceled and the appeal dismissed for mootness, this was still an en banc sitting for the Fifth Circuit record books. Seven cases heard in six en banc arguments (the two 10 Commandments cases having been consolidated for oral argument only), and on a holiday-shortened week, at that.…
End of the en banc week at the U.S. Fifth Circuit, one for the record books, and it started early, moving the argument up from 9:00 to 8:30 to give judges and staffs time to get back home, some of them to places that will be snow- and ice-bound starting tonight. Plus, the day’s arguments…
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