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When Rodney Reed first tried to challenge the constitutionality of Texas's postconviction DNA-testing procedures, the Fifth Circuit held his claim time-barred. Supreme Court(2023…

A Schrödinger’s motion that has vexed habeas practitioners: How long must a motion for an injunction gather dust on a district judge's desk before it is "constructively denied," allowing the movant to appeal (here, Amazon seeking relief from some NLRB rulings)?…

And in en banc news, the Sixth Circuit will reconsider its decision, previously…

Buffalo, N.Y. detective Mark Stambach feeds nonpublic information about a 2004 double murder to a schizophrenic man, who then "confesses" and spends over 10 years in prison before being exonerated. There was no other evidence corroborating Ortiz’s involvement. (And oh, other culprits…

Trespassing charges for dozens who crossed into a new military zone in New Mexico have been dismissed by a federal magistrate judge.

The …

Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University undergraduate whom the Trump administration is trying to deport because of his on-campus criticism of Israel, will be…

In a well reasoned decision, a District of Nevada federal court struck the government’s newly filed death notice in a case, citing principles of judicial estoppel and a lack of justification for a sudden reversal.

The ruling in United…

Sitting en banc, the Ninth Circuit rejected an as applied Second Amendment challenge to an often-charged federal law that prohibits convicted felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). See…

Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, David H. Souter, died peacefully yesterday at home in New Hampshire. He was 85 years old. See Supreme Court Press Release.

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The United States Sentencing Commission released Quick Facts for Individuals in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. As of March 2025, there were 154,155 individuals…