Fifth Circuit rules Galveston County should keep new maps in place for election By Matt deGrood, Staff Writer Dec 8, 2023 ...

Louisiana asks Fifth Circuit to overturn congressional map ruling A federal judge ruled last year that the state's 2022 congressional districts illegally diluted Black voting power.

The Fifth Circuit oversees courts in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and judges there now have one less reason to strike down democratically passed district maps, including for Congress after ...

Fifth Circuit looks at racial impact in Galveston County voting maps The 16-member panel must decide whether a Galveston County voter map was redrawn as a political gerrymander — deemed legal by the U ...

So, while the Fifth Circuit’s latest decision in Robinson is good news for Louisiana’s Black voters, and for Democrats who will likely gain a House seat once the maps are redrawn, there is ...

She continued on that she understood the Fifth Circuit’s canceling of the hearing to be solely in service of giving the Louisiana legislature time to consider alternative maps.

The notoriously conservative Fifth Circuit will rule on whether it's a civil rights violation to deny a quadriplegic man a ventilator.

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The Fifth Circuit's opinion is very concerned with the fact that the suspect in a geofence warrant case is unknown. That is, the whole point of the warrant is to identify the suspect.

An appeals court struck down a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be received five days after the election. Many states have similar laws.

Reversing decades of precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in a Texas case that different minority groups cannot jointly claim that their votes have been diluted.

The U.S. Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit said geofence search warrants are "categorically prohibited" under the Fourth Amendment.