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Civilrights.org
April 17, 2018
The Senate must confirm honest and fair-minded nominees to serve in the federal judiciary, not people like Vitter and Duncan.” ... unable to put aside his personal politics and ideologically-fueled activism, which makes him categorically unfit to serve as a federal judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The National Law Review
April 17, 2018
A recent ruling allows health care providers to seek relief from federal courts if the delay caused by the Medicare appeals backlog is likely to cause the provider irreparable injury. In late March, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed long-standing precedent1 and ruled that a federal district court hadÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
April 14, 2018
On March 15, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. v. U.S. Dep't. of ... The DOL's 1975 approach was generally consistent with the framework in federal and state securities laws. The Investment Advisers Act of 1940, a line of federal cases following SEC v. CapitalÃâà...
WTVA
April 3, 2018
The lawsuit says there were permit problems and the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality violated the Clean Air Act. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in December of 2015. On Monday, the fifth circuit court of appeals reinstated the lawsuit but only against the MDEQÃâà...
Texas Tribune
April 3, 2018
As a longtime aide to Greg Abbott, Andrew Oldham has helped Texas fight the federal government. If he's confirmed to the federal bench, he could rule on the same ... Andrew Oldham was nominated to serve on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in February 2018. The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors.
Houston Public Media
April 3, 2018
The lawsuit got off to a bad start; a federal district court tossed it out on a Wednesday the next August. But on the following Monday, Abbott turned to a top aide — Andrew Oldham — to revive it. Oldham appealed, and in 2016, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court's decision.
Bloomberg BNA
March 27, 2018
The National Association for Fixed Annuities and the DOL on March 23 dropped a challenge that was pending in an appeals court in Washington, after the industry group agreed with the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacating the fiduciary rule. Why would the DOL agree to dropÃâà...
Houston Public Media
March 21, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas death row inmate Wednesday, ordering a federal appellate court to reconsider providing funding for ... to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which had denied requests for federal funding to look into Ayestas' claims of mental illness and substance abuse.
Seeking Alpha
March 21, 2018
After several failed attempts to derail the Fiduciary Rule through litigation, on Thursday March 15, opponents of the Fiduciary Rule succeeded in a 2-1 vote by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court's decision essentially wipes the Fiduciary Rule off the books entirely. This decision will take effect on MayÃâà...
Financial Advisor Magazine
March 20, 2018
How bad will the fallout be from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to vacate the U.S. Department of Labor's fiduciary rule? That will depend greatly on what the DOL does next. The agency can ask the Fifth Circuit to rehear the case or it can seek permission to appeal the decision to the SupremeÃâà...
InvestmentNews
March 15, 2018
The lawsuit was brought by several industry groups that oppose the rule, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Financial Services Institute. A Dallas district court upheld the DOL rule in a decision last year that eviscerated the industryÃâà...
CW39
March 14, 2018
5th Circuit Court of Appeals strikes SB4 injunction; Houston's immigrant community fears racial profiling will become norm ... outside City Hall, Houston's immigrant community rallied quickly to the punch in their gut delivered by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. ... This is an attack on civil rights on all of us.".
The Advocate
March 7, 2018
Saying that plaintiffs' attorneys missed a key deadline, a federal judge in New Orleans last month ruled that a lawsuit seeking damages from Denka Performance Elastomer for releasing dangerous levels of chloroprene into the air in St. John the Baptist Parish will not be certified as a class action. U.S.Ãâà...
NOLA.com
March 7, 2018
An appeal of a Baton Rouge federal judge's ruling halting construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline across the Atchafalaya Basin will be heard by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday (March 13). On Feb. 23, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick issued aÃâà...
The Federalist
March 6, 2018
But on Thursday, in ruling that the ORR should instead bring Doe before a federal judge to state her wishes, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals filled in some ... But as Judge Edith Jones noted in her partial concurrence and partial dissent to Thursday's ruling, “These 'facts' are nowhere in the record before us,Ãâà...
Washington Blade
March 6, 2018
The targets of the ire of those in attendance at the rally were Kyle Duncan, whom President Trump nominated in October for a seat on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Thomas Farr, whom Trump nominated in July for a federal judgeship in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Nan Aron, presidentÃâà...
Valley Public Radio
March 3, 2018
The Fresno City Council is dealing with a good problem, an $8.6 million windfall. The council voted Thursday to spend the net balance of the funds - $5.8 million - on a variety of items, from repairs at parks and city owned parking garages to body cameras for police officers. It also includes $1.3 million for aÃâà...
KWTX
February 23, 2018
In July 2016, a federal judicial conduct committee ordered the 5th U.S. Circuit Court to re-investigate the case against Smith. ... against Smith in December 2015 may not have gone far enough in the punishment meted out to Smith and ordered the 5th Circuit Court to review the evidence against Smith again.
The Advocate
February 18, 2018
In a decision that could bolster a separate lawsuit in New Orleans, a federal appeals court has upheld a challenge to the way Houston judges set bail for criminal defendants. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said this week that a district judge correctly found the Harris County,Ãâà...
Rare.us
February 16, 2018
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reportedly decided earlier this week to uphold most of U.S. District Court Judge Lee H. Rosenthal's ruling, which ... The federal case result comes after a 2016 lawsuit filed by Maranda ODonnell, a single mother who reportedly spent two nights in prison when sheÃâà...
Tyler Morning Telegraph
February 13, 2018
Abbott reportedly had unusual and outsized influence on the nomination process for federal judges, which is traditionally a process led by a state's two U.S. senators. That party infighting seems to have delayed what was expected to be a relatively smooth nominations and confirmation process dominatedÃâà...
Houston Public Media
February 12, 2018
Abbott reportedly had unusual and outsized influence on the nomination process for federal judges, which is traditionally a process led by a state's two U.S. senators. That party infighting seems to have delayed what was expected to be a relatively smooth nominations and confirmation process dominatedÃâà...
Buffalo Business First
December 31, 1999
In the midst of college basketball's March Madness, where seemingly no high-seeded team was safe from elimination, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down what has come to be known as the Fiduciary Rule, the Obama-era regulation that more broadly defined when a person is acting as a fiduciaryÃâà...
The Advocate
December 31, 1999
A federal court order temporarily blocking construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline is limited to the Atchafalaya Basin and work can continue elsewhere along the length of the 163-mile crude oil line, ... The company told the judge Monday the ruling would be sent to U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Houston Public Media
December 31, 1999
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that the county's bail system is unconstitutional. Judge Darrell Jordan and ... Jordan's co-defendant, Judge Mike Fields, urged Emmett and the commissioners to “use every tool in your arsenal to help us settle this lawsuit.” Fields added, “OurÃâà...
bestofneworleans.com
December 31, 1999
Designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by the New York architectural firm Hale and Rogers, the building originally also housed a U.S. Post Office. According to a history written by the General Services Administration, the post office occupied the entire first floor, while the Federal District Court andÃâà...
