Recent Cases

• 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.

• Private Law

  Heimer v. Companion Life Insurance Co.

  Sixth Circuit Invokes Contra Proferentem as Default Rule for Resolving Ambiguous Contract Provisions.

• Due Process

  Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Reynolds

  Iowa Supreme Court Applies Strict Scrutiny to Abortion Restriction.