DIFTCL: Federal Narrative Summaries

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit dismissed the appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction because the plaintiffs failed to satisfy the requirements for an interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1). The court held that while the district court’s partial summary judgment order had the practical effect of refusing a permanent...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the police officers and the City of Green Bay on the Estate’s claims alleging excessive force and failure to provide medical care in violation of the Fourth Amendment, as well as a Monell failure-to-train claim. The cour...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The eighth-circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of Anthony Baker’s motion to suppress evidence obtained during a traffic stop. The court applied a mixed standard of review, assessing factual findings for clear error and legal conclusions de novo, affirming unless the denial was unsupported by substan...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of Eric Kendrick’s motion to suppress evidence obtained via a pole camera installed on a public utility pole across from his leased auto-repair shop. The court held that the warrantless surveillance did not violate the Fourth Amendment because Kendric...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The seventh-circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendants in this Fourth Amendment excessive force claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The court held that the police officers were entitled to qualified immunity because Mace Davis failed to demonstrate that their use of non-l...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The seventh-circuit reversed the district court’s judgment enjoining enforcement of Illinois’s Protect Illinois Communities Act, holding that the state’s bans on AR-15-style rifles and thirty-round rifle magazines are consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation under...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The seventh-circuit reversed the district court’s judgment enforcing a permanent injunction against the Protect Illinois Communities Act, holding that the state’s bans on AR-15 rifles and thirty-round rifle magazines are consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation under the...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The sixth-circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Department of Veterans Affairs on Latria Harrison’s claims under the Rehabilitation Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. The court held that Harrison forfeited her arguments on appeal because her brief merely copied...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The seventh-circuit reversed the district court’s judgment enjoining enforcement of the Protect Illinois Communities Act, holding that the Act’s restrictions on AR-15 rifles and thirty-round rifle magazines are consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation under the Second Am...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The seventh-circuit reversed the district court’s permanent injunction that had enjoined enforcement of the entire Protect Illinois Communities Act, holding that the Act’s restrictions on AR-15 rifles and thirty-round rifle magazines are consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm reg...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit denied the petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision affirming the denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The court held that the agency’s findings were supported by substantial evidence, specifically concl...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The sixth-circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of Kyle Millis’s federal habeas corpus petition as untimely and remanded the case for further proceedings. The court held that it was not “plainly apparent” from the petition and exhibits that Millis was not entitled to equitable tolling of...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fourth Circuit granted Maximino Ramos’s petition for review, vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ final order of removal, and remanded the case to the agency for further proceedings. The court held that Ramos’s conviction under Virginia Code § 18.2-111 does not categorically constitute an &#82...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit granted the Government’s motion for summary affirmance and affirmed the district court’s judgment imposing a 36-month sentence on Ramiro Quevedo-Escobar for illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326. The court held that the defendant’s argument challenging the constitutionality of the sent...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment on the pleadings dismissing the lawsuit because the plaintiff, a Louisiana limited liability company dissolved by affidavit prior to filing suit, lacked legal capacity to sue under Texas law. The court applied Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17(b)(3), which d...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 Docket: 2:22-cr-00053-SPC-NPM-1 The eleventh-circuit affirmed the defendant’s convictions for possession and distribution of child pornography, rejecting challenges based on the Fourth Amendment, Double Jeopardy Clause, sufficiency of evidence, evidentiary rulings regarding graphic images, exclusion of emails, a...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Officer Shane Privette, holding that he is entitled to qualified immunity. The court resolved the appeal solely on the second prong of the qualified immunity analysis, determining whether the right alleged was “clearly estab...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of motions to intervene and dismissed the remaining claims for want of appellate jurisdiction. The court held that intervention was futile because 8 U.S.C. § 1623(a) expressly preempts Texas Education Code §§ 54.051(m) and 54.052(a), which authorize illegal ali...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The First Circuit affirmed the district court’s order suppressing evidence of child pornography discovered on a defendant’s iPhone 13 Pro Max. The court held that the government failed to meet its heavy burden of demonstrating that the agents acted with objective good faith under the good faith exception to t...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit granted the Federal Public Defender’s motion to withdraw and dismissed the appeal. The court based its decision on an *Anders v. California* review, in which it concurred with counsel’s assessment that the appeal presented no nonfrivolous issues for appellate review after examining the brief...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the 78-month sentence imposed on Erlin Alexander Castro-Medina for illegal reentry into the United States. The court held that Castro-Medina failed to demonstrate plain error regarding his challenges to the adequacy of the district court’s reasons, the substantive reasonableness of the se...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants SI Group, Bulk Solutions, and Brenner Tank Services in a Texas premises-liability and products-liability action arising from an accident where a hot water tanker trailer tipped over on gravel, scalding the plaintiff. Th...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit granted the appointed attorney’s motion to withdraw and dismissed the appeal after reviewing a brief filed in accordance with *Anders v. California* and *United States v. Flores*. The court concurred with counsel’s assessment that the record contained no nonfrivolous issues for appellate rev...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, dismissing Monnie Villarreal’s § 1983 claims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). The court held that Villarreal qualified as a “prisone...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment in favor of the EEOC and Sarah Budd, rejecting SkyWest Airlines’ appeal seeking a new trial or judgment as a matter of law. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting text messages into evidence under Federal Rule o...