Tag: Younger abstention

October 9-10, 2026, opinions

October 12, 2026

Designated for publication en banc per curiam (coting against rehearing: Elrod, Smith, Stewart, Richman, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson, Douglas, Ramirez; voting for rehearing: Jones, Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, Wilson) (no oral argument); Richman, J., concurring in denial of rehearing; Ho, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing; Oldham, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing (joined … More October 9-10, 2026, opinions

August 19-21, 2026, opinions

August 22, 2026

Designated for publication per curiam (Smith, Haynes, Oldham) (no oral argument), criminal, sentencing, guilty plea On remand from U.S. Supreme Court, dismissing appeal of conviction and sentence in light of appeal waiver in plea agreement. Davantae London robbed multiple Wal-Mart stores at gunpoint in the Houston area. As part of his plea agreement, he waived … More August 19-21, 2026, opinions

April 7, 2026, opinions

April 8, 2026

Designated for publication Ho, J. (Haynes, Higginson, Ho) (no oral argument), Higginson, J., dissenting; mandamus, venue, antitrust Granting mandamus to compel the district court to transfer venue to the Northern District of California. Branch Metrics, Inc. sued Google, LLC in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging Sherman Act violations based on documents uncovered during the … More April 7, 2026, opinions

December 9, 2025, opinions

December 12, 2025

Designated for publication Jones, J. (Jones, Stewart, Ramirez) (oral argument), Medicaid Vacating summary judgment for plaintiff hospitals in challenge to Department of Health and Human Services regulation “that penalizes hospitals in states that have pursued alternatives to Medicaid expansion,” and remanding for further proceedings. A group of Texas hospitals challenged a 2023 regulation issued by … More December 9, 2025, opinions

December 18, 2023, opinions

December 19, 2023

Designated for publication Jones, J. (Jones, Higginson, Duncan), Higginson, J., concurring; Clean Water Act, mootness Vacating district court’s judgment declining to review the Corps of Engineers’ jurisdictional determination under the Clean Water Act that landowner’s property contained jurisdictional wetlands, which determination the Corps had reached after the remand by the district court of an earlier … More December 18, 2023, opinions

January 7, 2022, opinions

January 14, 2022

Designated for publication U.S. v. Fuentes-Rodriguez, 15-40740, appeal from S.D. Tex. per curiam (King, Costa, Willett), criminal, sentencing, Armed Career Criminal Act On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, vacating district court’s sentencing of defendant on conviction of illegal reentry under the ACCA, where the district court had found that the defendant’s prior conviction of … More January 7, 2022, opinions