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United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Current United States federal appellate court

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Jan 25, 2026
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What court decisions have most constrained ICE use of administrative warrants in home-entry cases?

The most consequential constraints on ’s use of administrative warrants to enter homes come from a mix of precedents that favor judicial warrants for home entry and recent lower‑court rulings that hav...

Jan 29, 2026
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What specific actions did Judge Kate Menendez’s injunction bar federal agents from doing in Minneapolis?

issued a preliminary injunction that, while litigation continues, prohibited federal immigration and personnel involved in from retaliating against or using certain crowd-control tactics on people who...

Jan 27, 2026
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What specific criminal penalties and sentencing ranges does Minnesota Statute §624.714 impose for carrying without a permit?

makes without a valid permit a criminal offense punishable as a gross misdemeanor, and some statutory language and published summaries treat a second or subsequent conviction as a felony; the statute ...

Dec 6, 2025

What due process rights do noncitizens have during immigration enforcement actions?

Noncitizens on U.S. soil are entitled to protections under the Fifth Amendment: courts and advocates say the Due Process Clause applies to “persons,” not citizens only, and that enforcement practices ...

Jan 29, 2026

What specific incidents led Judge Kate Menendez to restrict ICE crowd-control tactics in Minnesota?

’s preliminary injunction restricting and other federal immigration agents from arresting, detaining, pepper‑spraying, tear‑gassing or otherwise retaliating against “peaceful and unobstructive” protes...

Nov 17, 2025

How have courts treated qualified immunity claims for ICE officers in abuse of authority lawsuits?

Courts have treated qualified immunity claims by or against ICE officers inconsistently: federal appellate courts have granted qualified immunity in some abuse-of-authority suits where they found no “...

Jan 30, 2026

When do courts require judicial arrest warrants for federal agents to enter a home?

have long required a judicial arrest warrant—signed by a judge or magistrate supported by probable cause—before federal agents may forcibly enter a private home to make an arrest, with limited, well-d...

Jan 26, 2026

What are the steps, training requirements, and disqualifying factors for obtaining a Minnesota permit to carry a pistol?

The Permit to Carry a Pistol (PCP) is issued by county sheriffs after an in-person application that includes proof of training and identity; permits are generally valid five years and Minnesota operat...

Jan 22, 2026

How have courts ruled on ICE’s use of administrative warrants and knock‑and‑talk tactics in recent Minnesota cases?

recently imposed limits on how and other federal immigration agents interact with protesters and observers, only to have the temporarily stay those limits while the government appeals; reporting docum...

Jan 22, 2026

What are the documented tactics (ruses, knock-and-talks) ICE has used to obtain consent to enter residences, and what legal challenges have followed?

Immigration and advocacy reporting shows —ranging from misrepresenting identity to staged scenarios designed to obtain voluntary consent to enter homes—and a recent internal memo authorizes forcible e...

Jan 31, 2026

How has the Eighth Circuit explained its decision to pause Menendez’s injunction and what are the next appellate steps?

paused ’s preliminary injunction on the grounds that the order was both overbroad and vague and that the federal government made a strong showing of likely success on the merits — including that the i...

Jan 28, 2026

How have federal circuits differed in treating ICE administrative warrants for arrests, and which circuits are most likely to produce a split warranting Supreme Court review?

Federal trial judges in , and elsewhere have pushed back against ’s use of internal “administrative” warrants to enter homes, issuing orders that such entries require judicial warrants and even summar...

Jan 18, 2026

How did different circuits apply the ‘moment-of-threat’ rule before the Supreme Court’s decision?

Federal courts were sharply divided before the Supreme Court’s ruling: a minority of circuits—most notably the Fifth, along with the Second, Fourth, and Eighth in practice—applied a compressed “moment...

Dec 9, 2025

Examples of court rulings on viewing CSAM online as accessing

Several federal courts of appeals have held that private internet companies that scan user content for CSAM are not government actors subject to the Fourth Amendment when they voluntarily search their...

Oct 31, 2025

Child Protective Services Practicing Eugenics, Supreme Court Challenge w/ Dwight Mitchell

The claim that Child Protective Services (CPS) are “practicing eugenics” and that a Supreme Court challenge featuring Dwight Mitchell is underway is a . Reporting and legal documents show CPS and rela...

Oct 26, 2025

Transgender Movement: Republicans' Shocking Funding Revealed! #shorts

The materials present four central claims: the Trump administration is pressuring universities to adopt anti-trans policies under threat of lost federal funding; Republican groups spent roughly on ant...

Feb 5, 2026

How have federal circuit courts differed on whether a single utterance of the N‑word creates a hostile work environment under Title VII?

Federal appellate courts are split: several circuits have held that a single, egregious utterance of the N‑word can be enough to send a Title VII claim to a jury, while others treat a lone slur as a n...

Feb 4, 2026

How do courts distinguish between probable cause to search a computer and sufficient evidence to prove knowing possession at trial under §§2252/2252A?

Courts treat to search a computer and proof of at trial as distinct legal thresholds: probable cause is a practical, lower-level showing to justify a warrant, while conviction under 18 U.S.C. §§2252/2...

Feb 2, 2026

What legal precedents exist where mere Tor use was used as evidence in prosecution?

The record shows courts and prosecutors have repeatedly treated -related evidence as a valuable investigative lead, but not as a standalone criminal smoking gun: law enforcement has used network inves...

Jan 27, 2026

What is the current status and docket information for Hussen v. Noem and Tincher (Minnesota) cases?

v. is a newly filed putative class action in (docket 0:26‑cv‑00324) brought by and partner firms on January 15, 2026; the complaint and summonses have been filed and counsel is moving for pro hac admi...