Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]

A federal appeals court has ruled the Trump administration can end legal protections for around 430,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela

A federal appeals court rejected on Friday a challenge by immigrant rights advocates to the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans,

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $83.3 million jury award against President Donald Trump for defaming magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019.

Donald Trump's claim that the appeals court ruled against him for partisan or ideological reasons is hard to take seriously.

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President Donald Trump’s pending Supreme Court appeal to save his tariff regime is “littered with inaccuracies” and “hyperbole,” Democratic states say, but they agree with him that the justices need to quickly take up the case.

Ruling on a Montana case, the court upholds key federal gun laws under the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. In a significant decision for gun control advocates and Second Amendment rights proponents,

A federal appeals court has upheld a civil jury's decision requiring President Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to columnist E. Jean Carroll.

Setting the stage for a major ruling on presidential power, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether a 1977 federal law giving the president certain emergency powers allowed […]