A Louisiana man is seeking more than $1 million in a lawsuit against Harris County and several law enforcement officers from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, accusing them of assaulting him after a low-speed pursuit in 2023.
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The United States government on Thursday called on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in challenging a federal judge's order to track down a Venezuelan man deported from Houston.
#Houston #Immigration #International #Local #National #News #CECOT #Deportation #FifthCircuitCourtOfAppeals #TrumpImmigrationPolicy #USDepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #USDistrictJudgeKeithEllison #Venezuela
The appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, considered the most politically conservative in the U.S., comes days after Judge Keith Ellison of the Southern District of Texas made a three-pronged order for government officials to locate 24-year-old Widmer Agelviz-Sanguino, facilitate communications with his attorneys and disclose arrangements made between the U.S. and El Salvador, where he was reportedly taken.
A federal court decision allowing continued protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients took effect this week.
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January that DACA recipients' protection from deportation was lawful, but work authorization and their presence in the country was not. The latter part of the ruling was limited to Texas, and the case was sent back to a district court judge in Houston.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a $14.25 million penalty against oil giant ExxonMobil following thousands of environmental violations at a Baytown petrochemical complex.
#EnergyEnvironment #News #Baytown #BaytownPetrochemicals #Exxonmobil #FifthCircuitCourtOfAppeals
The overwhelming court decision to reject ExxonMobil's appeal put an end to a more than decade-long legal effort pushed forward by environmental groups in Texas and California, and Exxon's several attempts to dodge responsibility for the violations.
A federal appeals court last week rejected an unnamed Texas agency’s attempt to withhold records and shield its employees from appearing before a grand jury in a federal investigation that appears to be targeting Attorney General Ken Paxton.
#News #Texas #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #DepartmentOfJustice #FederalAppealsCourt #FifthCircuitCourtOfAppeals
The ruling appears to be the first major sign that federal officials are still investigating Paxton after he was impeached and subsequently acquitted by the Legislature last year over charges of bribery and abuse of office.
David Jones, a prominent Houston bankruptcy judge, resigned Monday amidst allegations he did not disclose a years-long romantic relationship with an attorney whose law firm regularly appeared in his court.
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Jones resigned Monday, three days after a formal misconduct complaint was filed in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The prominent bankruptcy judge is accused of failing to disclose a romantic relationship with an attorney who previously worked for a law firm that regularly handled cases in his court.
On Monday at the University of Texas in Austin, a second round of arrests in a week took place. Those arrests could have financial implications for protest organizers in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Last year the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that public protest organizers can be held financially liable for any illegal act committed by a single protester. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review that decision. But it's more complicated than that.
ODD AND HARMFUL FIFTH CIRCUIT APPEALS COURT RULING REGARDING PROTESTING
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A federal appeals court this week declined to reconsider a ruling that blocked part of a Texas law requiring book sellers to rate their own works for sexual content before selling to schools in the state.
#Education #News #FederalAppealsCourt #FifthCircuitCourtOfAppeals #HB900 #RestrictingExplicitAndAdultDesignatedEducationalResources
The United States Supreme Court has put on hold a federal appeals court decision that would have allowed Texas’ controversial immigration-enforcement law, Senate Bill 4, to go into effect as early as this weekend.
#Border #Immigration #News #FifthCircuitCourtOfAppeals #SenateBill4 #TexasBorder #USSupremeCourt
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