(The Center Square) – The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued a temporary stay, maintaining President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard hours ...

Cases from Texas, as well as Louisiana and Mississippi, go to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considered one of the most conservative federal appeals courts.

ACLU attorneys briefed and argued all three of the circuit court cases that have now held the statute unconstitutional and are litigating challenges to the law in other courts of appeals. The Tenth ...

In many federal appeals courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, long known as a more liberal circuit, cases are assigned by lottery.

Cases from Texas, as well as Louisiana and Mississippi, go to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considered one of the most conservative federal appeals courts.

The federal courts system is generally made up of three levels: U.S. district courts, U.S. courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, which is sometimes referred to as the high court.

Al J. Daniel, Jr., served on the Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 1978 to 1988. He is in private practice with Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & ...

Burton M. Atkins, Justin J. Green, Consensus on the United States Courts of Appeals: Illusion or Reality?, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Nov ...

The effect of the Supreme Court’s decisions on the courts of appeals through the prism of the Ninth Circuit’s dealings after Almeida-Sanchez sheds light on the varied ways in which the Court’s ...