DIFTCL: Federal Narrative Summaries

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 Docket: 8:16-cv-00274-MSS-CPT The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment, upholding the jury’s verdict that found the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office liable for wrongful death while rejecting the plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment claim against Deputy Mark Clark. The court held...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Fourth Circuit affirmed Charles Raymond Wable’s 180-month prison sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm and witness tampering, rejecting his arguments that the district court erred in calculating his base offense level and abused its discretion by failing to consider nonfrivolous sentencing arguments. R...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 Docket: 2:24-CV-02533-DDC) The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of Michael Eugene Parker, Sr.’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction. The court held that because Mr. Parker failed to seek review by the Social Security Administration’s Appeals Council regarding the Administrative Law Judg...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s second amended preliminary injunction against DMARC Advisor BV (dBV) and dismissed the remainder of dBV’s appeal regarding correction and contempt orders. Regarding the injunction, the court held that it comports with the Supreme Court’s decision in *Abi...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 Docket: 1:21-cr-20418-JLK-1 The eleventh-circuit vacated the defendant’s conviction for carjacking and remanded the case for a new trial on that count. The court held that the district court committed plain error by delivering an Allen charge that deviated substantially from the circuit’s pattern jury inst...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 Docket: 8:16-cv-00274-MSS-CPT The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of the plaintiff’s renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law and motion for a new trial regarding the Fourth Amendment claim, as well as the district court’s rulings on sovereign immunity, evidentiary admissi...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Fifth Circuit vacated the panel opinion issued on July 2, 2026, and ordered a rehearing of the consolidated immigration cases en banc with oral argument to be scheduled at a later date. The court’s decision was based on a majority vote of circuit judges in regular active service who were not disqualified, actin...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Fifth Circuit ordered a rehearing en banc of the consolidated immigration cases involving Ignacio Sosnava Rodriguez, Alejandro Villegas Angel, and Miguel Angel Gomez Alvarado. The court vacated the panel opinion issued on July 2, 2026, pursuant to its own motion and a majority vote of the circuit judges in regular ac...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-10 The Fifth Circuit granted a petition for rehearing en banc on its own motion, vacating the panel opinion issued on July 2, 2026. A majority of the circuit judges in regular active service voted to rehear the consolidated immigration cases involving Ignacio Sosnava Rodriguez, Alejandro Villegas Angel, and Miguel Angel Gom...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of Joshua Wright’s § 1983 claim alleging that Illinois Department of Children and Family Services employees violated his deceased son’s substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to protect him from private viole...

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Filed: 2026-07-09 The Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of judgment on the pleadings in favor of Nautilus Insurance Company, holding that a “Prior Work Exclusion” in Bee Quality Inc.’s commercial general liability policy effectively barred coverage for claims arising from work completed before t...

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...