Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho said he’s resigning from a judicial group after it spoke up in defense of judges who’ve been ...

You can't say that you're in favor of judicial independence only when it comes to decisions that you like," Ho said of the ...

Judge James Ho, in his solo dissent, wrote the city’s public safety interest doesn’t justify “banish[ing] people of faith … to the functional equivalent of Siberia.” ...

Many court watchers are fond of observing how often the Fifth Circuit ... of the D.C. Circuit and other courts. The double standard in play attempts to discredit conservative judges when they ...

Becerra was decided on January 31. In this case, the Fifth Circuit voted 16-1 to deny en banc review in a challenge to a Biden-era transgender rule. Only Judge Ho voted to grant review.

A panel of the Fifth Circuit (Smith, Elrod, Oldham) ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Sambrano v. United Airlines. The panel issued an unpublished opinion. Judge Smith dissented on the merits.

Feb. 4—The Hon. Lindsay J. Starwalt, new Associate Judge for the Fifth Judicial District, was sworn in Thursday, Jan 30. When Stalwart was appointed by the Hon. Chief Judge Thomas M. O ...

Fifth Circuit judge Leslie M. Southwick has published a very interesting memoir on his long path to his seat, The Nominee: A Political and Spiritual Journey. (Longtime readers may recall that I ...

In December, developers Leroy Walker, Socrates Garrett, and Howard Catchings filed a notice of appeal with the Fifth Circuit, weeks after a district court judge dismissed their suit against the ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 5 into law in June 2017 after U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos and the en banc Fifth Circuit found the state’s previous voter ID law, SB 14, was more likely ...

A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Texas law banning sanctuary cities can go into effect while the legal fight over the constitutionality of the measure continues in federal ...

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday in the case of Doe v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America that an anti-abortion group cannot bring a ...