Recent Cases

• First Amendment: Religion

  American Humanist Ass’n v. Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission

  En Banc Fourth Circuit Denies Rehearing of Holding that Cross-Shaped World War I Memorial Violates Establishment Clause.

• Administrative Law

  Soundboard Ass’n v. FTC

  D.C. Circuit Holds that Informal Staff Letters Are Not Eligible for Judicial Review Under the Administrative Procedure Act.

• Criminal Procedure

  United States v. Touset

  Eleventh Circuit Holds that Border Searches of Property Require No Suspicion.

• Administrative Law

  Sierra Club v. U.S. Department of the Interior

  Fourth Circuit Vacates Environmental Approvals for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

• Eighth Amendment

  Manning v. Caldwell

  Fourth Circuit Declines to Apply Justice White’s Concurrence in Powell v. Texas as Binding Precedent.

• Civil Rights

  Rodriguez v. Swartz

  Ninth Circuit Extends Bivens Remedy to Mexican Citizen Killed in Mexico by Cross-Border Agent Standing in America.

• Race and the Law

  Lewis v. Governor of Alabama

  Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Discrimination Claim Relying on Historical and Statistical Evidence.

• Executive Power

  United States v. Hamidullin

  Fourth Circuit Holds Taliban Member Not Entitled to Combatant Immunity.