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 ...

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 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 ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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.

A federal appeals court found Tuesday that banning child sex changes does not violate parents’ rights, days after another ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court's order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America ...

A New York appeals court dismissed a $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Trump and his companies for ...