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Federal courts have produced a fractured body of law about -protection">Customs and Border Protection (CBP) activity beyond the agency’s regulatory “zone”: precedent gives CBP broad authority at the b...
’s leading precedent on immunity for federal officers is the 19th‑century decision Cunningham v. (In re) Neagle, which established federal‑officer immunity from state prosecution when officers act to ...
Available sources do not report a criminal fraud conviction for Kody Brown; past legal attention involved investigations around polygamy and a federal case challenging Utah’s polygamy law rather than ...
Federal appellate courts have largely recognized a First Amendment right to observe and record law enforcement in public, but they also draw lines where recording becomes criminal obstruction—principa...
The claim that U.S. states or localities have legally barred Muslims from holding public office is ; courts and scholars document discriminatory measures and tests that targeted religion but do not id...
The doctrine that can shield federal officers from state criminal prosecution is rooted in the Supremacy Clause and was first articulated in In re Neagle , but the Supreme Court’s recent decision in M...
Tyler Boyer’s case currently shows activity at the federal appellate level: the Federal Circuit heard argument earlier this month concerning whether an employer may rely solely on to establish an affi...
Federal courts have repeatedly found state-level bans singling out “Sharia” unconstitutional, concluding those measures violate the Establishment Clause by targeting Islam rather than neutral legal pr...
Courts have treated warrants based primarily on with caution, creating a fractured doctrine: some appeals courts allow warrants when private actors (platforms) reviewed the content before reporting, w...
Tina Peters’ legal team has relied on a mix of procedural challenges, claims of official-duty and constitutional defenses, attempts to introduce outside evidence (including correspondence from voting-...
As of mid‑November 2025, Tina Peters remains in state custody while her legal team pursues multiple federal and state avenues: a federal habeas petition seeking bond and release pending her state‑cour...
Federal appellate treatment of authority to stop and search people and vehicles beyond the agency’s 100‑mile regulatory “reasonable distance” is fractured: at least two federal circuits have sanctione...
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...
Federal and state courts have repeatedly acted as gatekeepers that limit or invalidate state laws singling out “Sharia” or broadly banning foreign law, grounding decisions in the Constitution’s Suprem...
Available reporting shows Kody Brown was publicly reported as the subject of a police investigation in 2010 after the premiere of Sister Wives, when Lehi, Utah, police announced they were looking into...
Oklahoma’s 2010 ballot measure, State Question 755 — widely described as an amendment — was approved by roughly 70% of voters but never took effect because federal courts found it unconstitutional. Fe...
have produced measurable reductions in effective voter registrations in states that tried to enforce them: saw tens of thousands of prospective registrants suspended, ’s long-running regime created a ...
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...
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...
have not adopted a single rule; instead appellate courts treat browser-cache and temporary-download evidence as intensely fact-specific, reversing convictions where defendants lacked knowledge of cach...