2020 Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1 - 500 of 2844
Date: December 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20643
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of a 460 month term of imprisonment based on defendant's conviction for first-degree murder under 18 U.S.C. 1111(b). While a person convicted of first-degree…
Date: December 29, 2020
Docket Number: 19-60225
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit dismissed as moot a petition for review of the BIA's decision affirming petitioner's motions for continuance pending resolution of his T visa application, withholding of removal under the Immigration…
Date: December 28, 2020
Docket Number: 18-11368
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 alleging that state judges in Dallas, Texas are unconstitutionally denying release to indigent arrestees who cannot pay the prescribed cash bail. The district court certified…
Date: December 28, 2020
Docket Number: 20-40200
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to knowingly and intentionally possessing with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana. The court affirmed the district…
Date: December 23, 2020
Docket Number: 18-60606
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied petitions for review by the State of Texas and Sierra Club, challenging the EPA's action designating Bexar County, Texas as in nonattainment and three neighboring counties as in attainment with…
Date: December 23, 2020
Docket Number: 20-20147
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit granted the government's emergency motion to stay the district court's order of release and expedited this appeal. In 2010, petitioner was indicted on capital charges stemming from a 2006 double…
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10465
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant argued that the district court did not properly pronounce supervision conditions requiring him to participate in drug treatment and to pay at least $25 per month towards its costs. Defendant also argued that…
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-40799
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff was hired by Kirby to pilot a seagoing vessel. While plaintiff was aboard the vessel, he injured his foot when he tripped over a stair inside a hatch door. Plaintiff filed suit against Kirby for lost wages and…
Date: December 22, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50319
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit to invalidate IAM's opt-out procedures as violative of his First Amendment rights, the Railway Labor Act (RLA), and IAM's Duty of Fair Representation. The district court dismissed the action under…
Date: December 21, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20023
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit withdrew its prior opinion and substituted this opinion in its place. The petition for rehearing en banc remains pending. Plaintiff worked as a tool pusher for Helix and was paid a daily rate. Although…
Date: December 21, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20779
Justia Opinion Summary: After Mark Braswell died when his road bike collided with a stopped truck, his survivors filed suit against the truck's owner, the Brickman Group. Brickman was primarily insured by ACE and secondarily insured by AGLIC.…
Date: December 21, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50638
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Carmen and Jessie Ramirez and their company, Black Magic, alleging that the Ramirezes violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and the Fair Labor Standards Act…
Date: December 18, 2020
Docket Number: 20-20108
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit certified the following question to the Supreme Court of Texas: Under Texas products-liability law, is Amazon a "seller" of third-party products sold on Amazon's website when Amazon does not hold title…
Date: December 18, 2020
Docket Number: 20-40082
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's denial of qualified immunity to defendant in an action brought by plaintiff, alleging 42 U.S.C. 1983 claims premised on the denial of a name-clearing hearing in violation…
Date: December 17, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30756
Justia Opinion Summary: After he sustained an ankle injury by stepping on a chafed stern line while he was a seaman aboard a tugboat owned by Kirby, plaintiff filed a Jones Act negligence claim against Kirby. The district court concluded that…
Date: December 15, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20152
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant alleged that appellee played a key role as a strawman purchaser in a fraudulent land transfer where valuable property passed from a limited partnership, A&D, to another limited partnership in appellee's…
Date: December 15, 2020
Docket Number: 19-60596
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 alleging that MTM's failure to pick him up violated his purported right to non-emergency medical transportation under various federal regulatory and statutory Medicaid…
Date: December 14, 2020
Docket Number: 19-51123
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendant and the Hoopa Valley Tribe for violations of state tort and contract law. The district court, ruling on a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss, found sovereign…
Date: December 14, 2020
Docket Number: 20-70004
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability (COA). Petitioner was sentenced to death for shooting and killing a police officer. The court held that petitioner's claims, that his…
Date: December 11, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20160
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the unions she was affiliated with, as well as a maritime association, for sexual harassment under federal employment law, arguing that defendant's conduct created a hostile work environment.…
Date: December 11, 2020
Docket Number: 19-51000
Justia Opinion Summary: After the IRS assessed taxpayer in 2014 for tax deficiencies dating back to 2005, taxpayer contends that the assessment is barred by the Internal Revenue Code's three-year limitations period, which runs from the date…
Date: December 8, 2020
Docket Number: 18-11168
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that the district court erred in granting defendant's 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion and vacated the district court's order, directing the district court to reinstate its original judgment. In this case,…
Date: December 8, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10588
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a mandamus action in the district court, seeking an order to compel USCIS officials to travel to federal prison in order to administer the oath of citizenship to…
Date: December 8, 2020
Docket Number: 20-10386
Justia Opinion Summary: Automation Support filed suit against its former employees and one employee's new company, Humble Design, under the Texas Theft Liability Act (TTLA). After a year and a half of litigation in the district court, the…
Date: December 7, 2020
Docket Number: 20-10322
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against her former employer, UMC, alleging age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). Plaintiff claimed that she and several other elderly employees…
Date: December 7, 2020
Docket Number: 20-40274
Justia Opinion Summary: Southern Recycling brought a petition for exoneration or limitation of liability under the Limitation of Liability Act. The petition arose from an accident during shipbreaking operations that killed one worker and…
Date: December 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-31027
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Peoples Health Network in an action brought by former employees, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The…
Date: December 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-41039
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants in an action brought by the estate of Rosa Bonilla, a woman who committed suicide while in custody. In regard to the episodic acts…
Date: December 4, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-50891, 19-50912
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed Defendants William Joseph Dubin and David Fox Dubin's convictions and sentences for charges arising from a scheme to defraud Texas’ Medicaid program. William, a licensed psychologist, formed a…
Date: December 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-51144
Justia Opinion Summary: El Paso County and BNHR, a community organization headquartered in El Paso, filed suit challenging the government's use of funds allocated for 10 U.S.C. 284 and 2808 purposes to construct a wall on the southern border.…
Date: December 4, 2020
Docket Number: 20-30186
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arises out of R. Allen Stanford's Ponzi scheme. Plaintiffs filed suit against SEI and SEI's insurers, seeking to hold SEI liable under the control-person provision of Louisiana Securities Law. In this case,…
Date: December 3, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50323
Justia Opinion Summary: Future Proof filed suit against Coors for trademark infringement, claiming that consumers would confuse Coors' hard seltzer beverage "Vizzy" with Future Proof's hard seltzer beverage "Brizzy." The Fifth Circuit…
Date: December 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11297
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's consecutive 24-month sentences for violating the terms of his supervised release. Defendant argued that the district court clearly gave significant weight to an improper factor—the…
Date: December 2, 2020
Docket Number: 19-40605
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit challenging Texas's physical-examination requirement for vets, which prohibits vets from offering individualized advice to pet owners unless the vet previously examined the animal. The district court…
Date: November 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-60293
Date: November 30, 2020
Docket Number: 20-10033
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury found that defendants were liable for violations of overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), defendants alleged various errors by the district court. The Fifth Circuit held that…
Date: November 24, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20818
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Wal-Mart after a store employee incorrectly identified plaintiff as a shoplifting suspect in a photo lineup. On appeal, plaintiff challenged the district court's dismissal of her defamation…
Date: November 23, 2020
Docket Number: 17-50282
Justia Opinion Summary: The en banc court held that 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) does not give Medicaid patients a right to challenge, under 42 U.S.C. 1983, a State's determination that a health care provider is not "qualified" within the meaning of…
Date: November 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11115
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal without prejudice of T.B.'s discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act. The court held, on the record before…
Date: November 20, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30014
Justia Opinion Summary: Kendole Joseph's family filed suit against police officers after Joseph died during the course of an arrest. Plaintiffs alleged violations of Joseph's Fourth Amendment rights, as well as claims of excessive force and…
Date: November 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50801
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit reversed defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. When defendant pleaded guilty to the crime, he reserved the right to challenge on appeal the denial of his motion to…
Date: November 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30927
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for sentence reduction filed pursuant to section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018. The court held that the district court did not misinterpret…
Date: November 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50168
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners appealed the dismissal of their petitions for habeas corpus. Petitioners claimed that their due process rights had been violated by failure to honor the parole notice, that federal statutes and regulations…
Date: November 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50907
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for sentence reduction filed pursuant to section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018. The court held that the district court did not abuse its…
Date: November 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-60233
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion…
Date: November 13, 2020
Docket Number: 20-10272
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed appellant's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme involving the use of phone calls, emails, and wire transfers to defraud the victim of…
Date: November 12, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50774
Justia Opinion Summary: After movants, who were the plaintiffs in a separate but similar case, were denied intervention in the district court, they moved to intervene in the Secretary of State's ongoing appeal concerning signature-verification…
Date: November 11, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30635
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. In this case, the parties agree that the Government conducted a search when it used the GPS…
Date: November 11, 2020
Docket Number: 19-31048
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's concurrent, within-Guidelines sentences of 120 months for being a felon in possession of a firearm and 151 months for possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance.…
Date: November 10, 2020
Docket Number: 19-40580
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Fieldwood and others after he was injured while working on Fieldwood's offshore platform. The jury found that Fieldwood was the only defendant that was negligent, attributing 50 percent of…
Date: November 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10963
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendants' convictions for multiple counts of health care fraud and multiple counts of aggravated identity theft based on their submission of fraudulent insurance claims. Defendant Terry…
Date: November 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50119
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, holding that there is a sufficient factual basis to support the conviction. In this case, the…
Date: November 9, 2020
Docket Number: 19-51094
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for production of child pornography. The court held that the magistrate judge did not commit plain error during the plea colloquy; there was sufficient…
Date: November 6, 2020
Docket Number: 20-30187
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment of dismissal without prejudice based on forum non conveniens. The district court enforced a disputed forum selection clause requiring litigation in the 19th…
Date: November 4, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11302
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from a contract dispute between Pizza Inn and defendant, a franchisee of Pizza Inn. Defendant held an option to renew but failed to timely notify Pizza Inn that he wished to do so; Pizza Inn did not…
Date: November 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30018
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit withdrew its previous opinion and affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief to petitioner. Petitioner contends that the state court's decision denying his Sixth Amendment Confrontation…
Date: November 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30375
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit treated the petition for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing, denied the petition for panel rehearing, and denied the petition for rehearing en banc. The court withdrew its prior opinion…
Date: November 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50765
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerns challenges to a 2017 law imposing a temporary but substantial increase in quarterly fees for large Chapter 11 debtors. The Fifth Circuit held that the fee increase is constitutional and applies in this…
Date: November 3, 2020
Docket Number: 19-60729
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied the petition for review of the BIA's adverse credibility determination, decision to deny withholding of removal relief, denial of petitioner's claim under the Convention Against Torture (CAT),…
Date: November 2, 2020
Docket Number: 20-10168
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's 151 month sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The court held that the district court did not…
Date: November 2, 2020
Docket Number: 20-40122
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit joined the Second, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits in adopting the fugitive tolling doctrine in the context of supervised release. The court held that 18 U.S.C. 3583(i) does not foreclose the fugitive…
Date: October 30, 2020
Docket Number: 19-10345
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied movant's request for authorization to file a third habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2255 to challenge his yet-unserved sixty-month sentence for carrying and using a firearm during a crime of…
Date: October 30, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50907
Date: October 28, 2020
Docket Number: 18-31074
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed Defendants Shelton Barnes, Michael Jones, Henry Evans, Paula Jones, and Gregory Molden's convictions and sentences for offenses related to Medicare fraud. In regard to Barnes, the court held…
Date: October 28, 2020
Docket Numbers: 19-40901, 19-40902
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for harboring illegal aliens. The court held that defendant's duplicity argument is waived; even if the district court erred by applying the reckless…
Date: October 28, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50529
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's dismissal of Speech First's First and Fourteenth Amendment challenges to several policies that intend to regulate speech at the University of Texas at Austin. Speech First…
Date: October 28, 2020
Docket Number: 20-20005
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's decision affirming the bankruptcy court's denial of plaintiff's motion for leave to amend. In this case, plaintiff sought to amend his complaint to include allegations that…
Date: October 28, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50907
Date: October 27, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20098
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence of 300 months in prison for healthcare fraud. Defendant's conviction stemmed from his involvement as a medical doctor in Medicare fraud. The court held that taking the Amex…
Date: October 27, 2020
Docket Number: 20-10049
Justia Opinion Summary: Under 28 U.S.C. 1782, a person may seek the assistance of a federal district court to obtain evidence for use in a foreign proceeding. Banca Pueyo and others invoked section 1782 to obtain discovery from three…
Date: October 27, 2020
Docket Number: 20-20148
Justia Opinion Summary: The judge may not delegate to the probation officer the decision to require inpatient, rather than outpatient, treatment because of the liberty interests at stake. The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's…
Date: October 26, 2020
Docket Number: 16-60766
Justia Opinion Summary: Two years after the Fifth Circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to review the denial of petitioner's motion to reopen because he had committed an offense covered in 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), the Supreme Court…
Date: October 26, 2020
Docket Number: 19-31023
Justia Opinion Summary: This action is one of many related to the collapse of First NBC Bank of New Orleans. The FDIC filed an action in the district court seeking to enforce an administrative subpoena that ordered defendant to submit to a…
Date: October 26, 2020
Docket Number: 20-30121
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against Sundance, SEA Eagle, Noble, and others for royalties pursuant to a Texas mineral lease. Plaintiffs allege that defendants negligently calculated royalty distributions and attempted to coerce…
Date: October 23, 2020
Docket Number: 18-10469
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that the Bankruptcy Court had the equitable power emanating from 11 U.S.C. 105(a) to correct any error it may have committed in changing the date of the first creditors' meeting after the case was…
Date: October 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20828
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Houston contends that it is being sued for a so-called "zombie" law. The City's Charter allows only registered voters to circulate petitions for initiatives and referenda, even though the Supreme Court held a…
Date: October 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30555
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit withdrew its prior opinion and substituted the following opinion. Plaintiff filed suit against defendant under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for violations of various constitutional rights and under Louisiana tort…
Date: October 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-30646
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit granted the petition for panel rehearing. The court withdrew its prior opinion on May 6, 2020 and substituted the following opinion. Since the prior opinion issued, the Supreme Court decided Nasrallah…
Date: October 23, 2020
Docket Number: 19-40887
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the United States and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers for injuries suffered during an incident at the International Port of Entry Gateway Bridge in Brownsville, Texas. The Fifth…
Date: October 22, 2020
Docket Number: 18-70030
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit granted the petition for panel rehearing, withdrew its prior opinion, and substituted the following opinion. The court held that when a court order disposes of a habeas claim on procedural and, in the…
Date: October 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-20688
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against defendant, an investigator for the Texas Medical Board (TMB), alleging that defendant searched his medical office and seized documents without a warrant. The Fifth…
Date: October 22, 2020
Docket Number: 19-40776
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, two brothers and their parents, filed suit seeking injunction relief under the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act to prevent Mathis Independent School District from excluding them from extracurricular…
Date: October 20, 2020
Docket Number: 17-11212
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of two counts of theft of public funds, based on two fraudulent tax refunds (Count I and II), as well as aggravated identity theft (Count III). The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's…
Date: October 20, 2020
Docket Number: 17-30351
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a petition for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. 2254. Petitioner argues, under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), that the prosecution unlawfully withheld…
Date: October 20, 2020
Docket Number: 18-30684
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a federal prisoner, sought postconviction review of his conviction for money laundering under 28 U.S.C. 2241, rather than 28 U.S.C. 2255. Petitioner acknowledged that he cannot successfully file a section…
Date: October 20, 2020
Docket Number: 19-60938
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of plaintiff's pro se complaint against Toyota and Diversity, alleging claims under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and…
Date: October 19, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50774
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiffs filed suit challenging Texas's absentee-ballot system in August 2019, the district court granted plaintiffs' summary judgment motion in part, issuing an injunction adopting many of plaintiffs' proposed…
Date: October 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-11091
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Defendant admitted to selling 122 grams, but his sentence was based on…
Date: October 16, 2020
Docket Number: 19-41015
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, a certified class of minor children in the permanent managing conservatorship (PMC) of the Texas Department of Family Protective Services, filed 42 U.S.C. 1983 claims alleging that the Texas foster-care…
Date: October 15, 2020
Docket Number: 18-11572
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that defendants' failure to transfer him back to his normal housing without commitment proceedings violated his due process rights under Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480…
Date: October 15, 2020
Docket Number: 18-20440
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA), seeking retrospective and prospective relief for myriad alleged violations of the United States Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The…
Date: October 15, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50999
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess child pornography. The district court sentenced defendant to 70 months in prison and ten years of supervised…
Date: October 14, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50407
Justia Opinion Summary: Section 82.003 of the Texas Election Code allows mail-in voting for any voter at least 65 years old but requires younger voters to satisfy conditions, such as being absent from the county on election day or having a…
Date: October 14, 2020
Docket Number: 20-50793
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the dismissal of their claims challenging certain Texas voting procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plaintiffs allege that Black and Latino communities have been disproportionately impacted by…
Date: October 13, 2020
Docket Number: 17-51060
Justia Opinion Summary: Senate Bill 8 -- a statute that requires a woman to undergo an additional and medically unnecessary procedure to cause fetal demise before she may obtain a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, the safest and most…
Date: October 13, 2020
Docket Number: 19-50535
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon (Count 1); possession with intent to distribute cocaine (Count 2); and distribution of methamphetamine (Count 3). The court…
Date: October 13, 2020
Docket Number: 20-20525
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit granted TDCJ's motion to stay the district court's permanent injunction requiring TDCJ to follow specific procedures to protect Pack Unit inmates from COVID-19. Plaintiffs are two inmates incarcerated…
