District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals News

A panel of the DC Circuit today, in the case of Mills v. D.C. , granted a preliminary injunction in a case challenging the "neighborhood safety zone" system of police roadblocks recently instituted in the District of Columbia, finding that there was strong likelihood of success on the merits - the constitutional challenge: SENTELLE, Chief Judge: ...

A federal court that refused to block a police checkpoint program in a crime-plagued Washington neighborhood has been told to reconsider.

A federal appeals court has halted the retrial of a former Navy commander accused of lying about injuries to defraud the Sept.

A federal appeals court has halted the retrial of a former Navy commander accused of lying about injuries to defraud the Sept.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has dismissed the timber industry's lawsuit challenging threatened species protection for the marbled murrelet, a seabird that nests in old growth trees.

I wrote to Sen. Charles 'Chuck' E. Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to ask that they vote yes to grant the Food and Drug Administration the authority to reguate tobacco products.

The Kentucky Public Service Commission today marks its 75th birthday, on the anniversary of the appointment of the first commissioners.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice is facing a legal malpractice suit from a Catholic radio broadcaster and education group that alleges mistakes by the firm cost it millions of dollars.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., Friday unanimously upheld the dismissal of a $50 million malpractice suit against Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman .

Jun 29, 2009 - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced members of his staff.

A Politico article about the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano promoted the myth that a Supreme Court reversal is unusual.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal blasted an appeals court ruling Tuesday that rejected the New England state's effort to gain more control of the region's power grid.

Several owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline are asking a federal appeals court to review a federal order to charge lower rates for pumping oil through the 800-mile line.

Don't look to the Supreme Court to set school rules, only to clarify them when officials have abdicated that responsibility, Chief Justice John Roberts said Saturday.At a judicial conference, Roberts was asked how school administrators should interpret seemingly conflicting messages from the court in two recent decisions, including one Thursday ...

Recent cases applying the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and its cousin, the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act , underscore that these laws are simply wrongheaded, not to mention dangerous.

An appeals court has ruled that federal energy regulators have control over a key estimate used in determining electricity pricing in New England, and not the six states themselves.

The Supreme Court will not revive a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against former members of the Bush administration.

Appeals court has been sitting on telco's case for close to 18 months. A federal appeals court has asked the Federal Communications Commission to redo its 2007 decision denying Verizon Communications Inc.

In a 2-1 split, a federal appeals court today in Washington ruled against a former Treasury Department employee who alleged sex and race discrimination in a promotion dispute with the government.

Calling the Federal Aviation Administration's proposed airspace redesign for the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area and Philadelphia "procedurally sound and substantively reasonable," the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last week dismissed a challenge to the plan brought by an alliance of 14 local municipalities, including New Canaan.