Free Database of 2024 US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Case Law, Court Opinions & Decisions from Justia
Free Database of 2023 US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Case Law, Court Opinions & Decisions from Justia
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (New Orleans) has granted an administrative stay of District Judge Terry A. Doughty's preliminary injunction to prevent various federal departments from communicating with social media companies to urge, encourage, or pressure them to remove, delete...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on July 24, 2012 to enforce a private Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) settlement. Conventional wisdom and many federal courts previously held that either a court or the U.S. Department of Labor should always supervise the release of wage-a...
Fifth Circuit: An appeal does not stay the judgment or execution of the judgment. Generally, a party seeking a stay must first apply to the district court. The court has discretion to depart from the usual requirement of a full security supersedeas bond to suspend t...
State Bar of Texas Board Chair Jerry Alexander led a team of prominent Dallas trial lawyers last year in a civil lawsuit involving a Ponzi scheme. He and the other trial lawyers retained me to handle an appeal to the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. Our case was set for argument the morning...
The Fifth Circuit noted that there is a stark difference between the term “total insurablevalues at risk” versus “total insuredvalues at risk.” It recognized that “insurable values” denotes the aggregate risk of a project or piece of property (i.e. the total value that the insuredcould...
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (New Orleans) rehearing en bane oral argument in a challenge to the Universal Service Fund's contribution mechanism on Sept. 19 asked attorneys about the extent of relief sought, record evidence on whether the Universal Service Administrative Co.'s ...
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (New Orleans) has reversed the ruling of a lower court and said that the Texas Cable Association's challenge of SB 5, the Texas law enacting a statewide cable franchising regime, can move forward....
A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appealsin New Orleans has vacated the license the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission (NRC) issued to Interim Storage Partners(ISP) to build a consolidated interim storage facility (CISF)in Andrews County, Texas. The Court ruled that the NRCdoes not ...