Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho is defending the court’s decisions in earlier litigation on the abortion medication mifepristone ...

For decades, the issue of the “tip credit” has been the subject of discussion and guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor ...

A trio of cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit have challenged the core of US Department of ...

Real World Impact: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' recent decision vacating the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule regarding tipped employees means the rule is no longer in effect nationwide.

Washington, D.C., Sept. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance petitioned the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a writ of mandamus to help return its anonymous ...

Today, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is an outlier. But a Trump victory in November could transform it into the standard-bearer of MAGA-era jurisprudence. By Mattathias Schwartz The ...

HOUSTON — The book ban debate is heating up as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is preparing to hear a case that'll determine how the First Amendment governs the types of books ...

In a landmark decision on Aug. 9, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declared that geofence warrants are unconstitutional ...

A federal appeals court declined to reinstate a lawsuit from a woman alleging a Texas county prosecutor worked on her criminal case while moonlighting as a law clerk in the court presiding over her ...

The Fifth Circuit suggested the Labor Department focus on defining what is a "tipped occupation." A federal appeals court axed a final rule of the U.S. Department of Labor intended to prevent ...

A dissenting U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit judge on Friday raised alarms over a “deep and enduring” circuit split related to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “favorable termination ...