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EFF, along with the national ACLU, the ACLU affiliates in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for...
World & Nation | U.S. troops may sue military contractors for their injuries, Supreme Court rules by David G. Savage
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The Supreme Court ruled 6‑3 that U.S. troops can sue military contractors for injuries caused by the contractors’ negligence, overturning a precedent that barred such suits. The case involved 20‑year‑old soldier Winston Henceley, who was seriously injured when a Taliban operative employed by Fluor Corporation detonated a bomb at Bagram Airfield, killing five soldiers and wounding 17 others. The Court held that neither federal law nor the Constitution shields contractors from liability when their mistakes lead to combat‑zone injuries, with Justice Clarence Thomas writing the majority opinion and Justices Alito, Roberts and Kavanaugh dissenting. The decision clears Henceley’s lawsuit to proceed against Fluor for its negligent hiring and supervision of the Afghan employee.
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #FluorCorporation #BagramAirfield #FourthCircuit #WinstonHenceley #AhmadNayeb
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Maryland school district didn't violate teacher's rights by requiring chosen pronoun use, appeals court rules
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/education/court-upholds-inclusive-pronoun-policy
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed teams affiliated with #DOGE to gain #access to potentially sensitive #data on millions of Americans, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in Feb.
By a 2-1 vote, a 3-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the #FourthCircuit granted the access to data stored at the #Treasury Dept, the #Education Dept & the Office of Personnel Management [#OPM], citing the June #SocialSecurity #SCOTUS decision.
Appeals Court Sidesteps The Big Questions on #Geofence #Warrants
Another federal appeals court has ruled on controversial geofence warrants—sort of. Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the #FourthCircuit sitting en banc issued a single sentence opinion affirming the lower court opinion in USA v. #Chatrie. The practical outcome of this sentence is clear: the #evidence collected from a geofence warrant issued to #Google can be used against the defendant in this case
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/appeals-court-sidesteps-big-questions-geofence-warrants
Another federal appeals court has ruled on controversial geofence warrants—sort of. The new opinion in Chatrie is a missed opportunity for the Fourth Circuit to join both other appellate courts to have considered the issue in finding geofence warrants unconstitutional.
On Tues, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the #FourthCircuit temporarily blocked the ballot verification process that had been ordered by the #NorthCarolina State #SupremeCourt. Many of the ballots in
question come from #Democratic-leaning counties, so their removal could lead to the election being overturned.
Judge #Wilkinson’s Fourth Circuit decision denying the government’s appeal in the Abrego-Garcia case, contains some important messages.
#AllisonGill highlights several passages from the decision that are must-reads.
Privacy laws need to be strong and not full of holes that leave us without protection because of a single click or some tiny fine print that no one reads. We need a strong data privacy law that prohibits waivers and mandatory arbitration requirements letting companies sidestep users’ basic legal rights.
#US #AppealsCourt #Dismisses #Conservative #Parents #Lawsuit Against #Trans-#Supportive #School #Policy.
The #decision, released Monday by the #US. #CourtofAppeals for the #FourthCircuit, #affirms a lower court’s #dismissal but offers different #reasoning
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Maryland #Education #Courts #Rulings #Conservatives #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-trans-lawsuit-dismissed-montgomery
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