D.C. Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit encompasses the smallest geographic area of any of the federal circuits with appellate jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. Despite its size, the court has been a major influence on US law and frequently hears litigation involving US federal agencies.
More information regarding the history of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit can be found at The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Recent Decisions From the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Date: August 17, 2018
Docket Number: 15-3040
Justia Opinion Summary: The DC Circuit affirmed Defendants Ayala, Machado-Erazo, and Martinez-Amaya's convictions and sentences for conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. The court held that the...
Date: August 17, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3005
Justia Opinion Summary: A generic appeal waiver does not affect a defendant's ability to appeal his sentence on yet-to-arise ineffective-assistance-of-counsel grounds. The DC Circuit held that the appeal waiver did not preclude defendant from a...
Date: August 17, 2018
Docket Number: 16-5269
Justia Opinion Summary: The DC Circuit affirmed the district court's decision to uphold HHS's redaction of certain types of information in response to PETA's request for information about the importation of nonhuman primates under the Freedom o...
Date: August 17, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1155
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal was whether the EPA had authority under Sections 307(d)(7)(B) and 112(r)(7) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to delay the effective date of the Chemical Disaster Rule of January 13, 2017, for twenty mon...
Date: August 17, 2018
Docket Number: 17-5202
Justia Opinion Summary: The Project and four individual herders challenged the agencies' 364-day certification period for H-2A visas, which allowed nonimmigrants to enter the country to perform certain agricultural work. The DC Circuit held tha...
Date: August 17, 2018
Docket Number: 17-7059
Justia Opinion Summary: AFDI filed suit against WMATA and its then-general manager, alleging that WMATA's refusal to display its advertisements violated its rights to free speech and equal protection under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. T...
Date: August 14, 2018
Docket Number: 16-5256
Justia Opinion Summary: AICPA challenged the IRS's Annual Filing Season Program as violating the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). On remand, the district court granted the IRS's motion for judgment on the pleadings based on AICPA's lack of s...
Date: August 14, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1025
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants challenged the tax court's decision affirming the Commissioner's determinations to disallow 26 U.S.C. 45K credits to appellants, to disallow the bulk of appellants' claimed business-expense deductions, and tha...
Date: August 14, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1056
Justia Opinion Summary: The DC Circuit denied Interjet's petitions for review of the Department's orders implementing a decision to not allow the airlines to give any takeoff and landing slots at Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airpor...
Date: August 14, 2018
Docket Number: 17-7062
Justia Opinion Summary: The DC Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendants in an action brought by plaintiff, a former Deputy Counsel, alleging that her termination was the product of discrimination based on h...
Date: August 10, 2018
Docket Number: 15-3018
Justia Opinion Summary: The DC Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for threatening to murder a federal law enforcement officer. The court held that the indictment fairly informed defendant of the charge against him so as to satisfy the Cons...
Date: August 10, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1320
Justia Opinion Summary: The DC Circuit denied the hospital's petition for review of the Board's determination that the hospital failed to make a showing that prohibiting the employees' picketing conduct was necessary to avoid disrupting patient...
Date: August 10, 2018
Docket Number: 16-5236
Justia Opinion Summary: The DC Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the Department of Defense in an action brought by plaintiff, a former instructor, under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act against the Natio...
Date: August 10, 2018
Docket Number: 17-5006
Justia Opinion Summary: Hospitals challenged the methodology that the Department used to calculate the "outlier payment" component of their Medicare reimbursements for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. At issue was whether the Department's decision t...
