SCOTUS ruled that the Seventh Amendment to the Constutution gives defendants a right to a jury trial even in civil cases…

Creating Content Isn’t A Crime. Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned David Lesh’s criminal conviction. Lesh, a client of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), faced accusations of violating a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) regulation. The court found the USFS regulation banning unauthorized “work activity or service” on USFS lands…

Citing a countless number of people who have been harmed by a federal gag order in what an appeals petition calls a reign of error, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, representing the Cape Gazette and 10 others, is asking a circuit court to put an end to the decades-old silencing tactic. In its U.S. Court…

The way fees are collected from telecommunications companies for the Universal Service Fund, which defrays the cost of phone and internet access in rural areas, is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court has ruled…

The Special Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) that has been investigating Judge Pauline Newman’s alleged misconduct for the past year today renewed its recommendation to sanction Newman in the form of a suspension from hearing cases at the panel or en banc level for an additional year. The Committee consists…

A Biden Administration debt relief plan that could cancel billions in student loans was temporarily halted Thursday by the Eighth Circuit…