DIFTCL: Federal Narrative Summaries

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit denied Carlos I. Aguilera-Martinez’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from the immigration judge’s denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The court h...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The fourth-circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of Ricardo Fishbourne’s civil rights complaint brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various state officials and entities, including Alex Murdaugh and the South Carolina Supreme Court. The appellate court reviewed the district court’s orders,...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence of Tyshaun Maurice McCollum for possession of a firearm as a convicted felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924. The court held that McCollum’s facial and as-applied challenges to the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment wer...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s orders dismissing Brian Jeffrey Hall, Jr.’s second amended complaint under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for failure to state a claim, as well as the denial of his Rule 59(e) motion to alter or amend the judgment. The...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit denied the petition for review of an order from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that denied Maria Magdalena Lopez Trejo’s motion for reconsideration regarding her request for relief from removal. The court applied the abuse of discretion standard, holding that the BIA acted within its aut...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit affirmed the defendant’s conviction and sentence, holding that the district court did not commit reversible error under *United States v. Rogers* by failing to orally pronounce specific standard conditions of supervised release or expressly reference the District of Maryland’s standing ord...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit affirmed the criminal judgment and sentence imposed on Kevin Jeter for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, and heroin. The court addressed Jeter’s argument that the district court erred by entering a forfeiture order holding him jointly and sever...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit denied the petition for review of an order from the Board of Immigration Appeals that refused to reopen immigration proceedings based on a second motion to reopen and declined to reopen the case sua sponte. The court held that the Board did not abuse its discretion in determining that the petitioner f...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 Docket: 3:17-cv-00321-WKW-SMD The eleventh-circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of the class action on mootness grounds but affirmed the dismissal of facial challenges to the county’s current bail policy. The court held that Randolph County’s mid-litigation adoption of a new bail schedule...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 Docket: 4:25-cv-00102-AW-MJF The eleventh-circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs’ amended complaint with prejudice and the denial of their post-judgment motions. The court held that the district court retained jurisdiction to dismiss the case despite a pending, non-appealable ord...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the jail officials sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The court held that the appellant, a convicted prisoner, failed to establish a protected liberty interest under the Fourteenth Amendment regarding his five-month placement in restr...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 Docket: 4:25-cv-00102-AW-MJF The eleventh-circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs’ amended complaint with prejudice and the denial of their post-judgment motions. The court held that the district court retained jurisdiction to dismiss the case despite a pending, non-appealable ord...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 Docket: 1:18-cr-20536-JEM-1 The eleventh-circuit dismissed the appeal sua sponte for lack of jurisdiction because the defendant lacked standing to challenge the final order of forfeiture. The court held that under Article III’s case-or-controversy requirement, a preliminary forfeiture order extinguishes a defend...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-09-28 Docket: 6:24-cv-00413-CEM-DCI The eleventh-circuit dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the appealed orders were not final or otherwise appealable decisions rendered by a district court within this circuit. The court held that transfer orders under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) and orders denying reconsideratio...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Federal Circuit affirmed the Merit Systems Protection Board’s final decision dismissing Sophia Hart’s appeal of her termination for lack of jurisdiction. The court held that Hart, an excepted service appointee under Schedule A who was not a preference eligible, failed to meet the definition of an &#8220...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The federal-circuit affirmed the judgment of the United States Court of Federal Claims dismissing Paul E. Pieczynski’s complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court held that Pieczynski failed to satisfy the requirements of the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491, which grants the Court of Federal Claims...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 Docket: 3:24-cv-05887-DGE The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of all federal claims brought by WDNR firefighters against the Washington Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and Commissioner Hilary Franz, as well as the dismissal of state law claims without prejudice. The court held that WDNR...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The ninth-circuit granted Kevin Alexander Ipina’s petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals order that had dismissed his appeal from an Immigration Judge’s denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. The court held that the Immigration Judge viola...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The federal-circuit dismissed the petition for review of a Merit Systems Protection Board decision under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 42(b) upon agreement by the parties. The court ordered that each side shall bear its own costs, resulting in the termination of the proceeding without a decision on the merits of...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The federal-circuit dismissed the appeal for failure to prosecute in accordance with the rules because the appellant failed to file the appendix required by Federal Circuit Rule 30(a)(5) within the permitted time. This dismissal terminates the appellate proceeding, leaving the decision of the United States Court of App...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The ninth-circuit granted the petition for review and remanded the case to the Board of Immigration Appeals for further proceedings. The court held that the Immigration Judge abused its discretion by pretermitting the petitioners’ applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture relie...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) second final written decision holding claims 1–12 of U.S. Patent No. 10,681,109 unpatentable as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103. The court rejected the appellant’s argument that the PTAB violated the mandate rule from a prior remand by ad...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Federal Circuit dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the underlying decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims was not final. The court applied the standard established in *Williams v. Principi*, which permits review of non-final remand orders only if three conditions are met: (1)...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 Docket: 2:21-cr-00273-GMN-MDC-1 The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s order revoking Mario Jones’s term of supervised release, holding that the lower court did not abuse its discretion. The court applied the abuse of discretion standard under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), noting that a single violation may w...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Federal Circuit vacated its prior opinion and dismissed the appeal based on a joint stipulation of dismissal filed by the parties. The court ruled that all pending motions are moot as a result of this agreement. Each party shall bear its own fees and costs. Do It For The Case Law is a news reporting service. Nothin...