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Federal Courts
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Original Jurisdiction
Ranking The Circuit Courts By Importance
By David Lat
The John Minor Wisdom Courthouse in New Orleans, home to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (photo by David Lat).Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication…
The Southern District of Florida Blog
Some Friendly, Random Advice from Judge Huck
By johnr-byrnesdfla-blogspot-com
By John R. ByrneThrough our years of practicing law, we're constantly learning—whether from watching opposing counsel, co-counsel, or through good old-fashioned trial and error. But one of our judges has…
LawSnap
Federal Court Should Be Hard. But Not THIS Hard.
By LawSnap
Federal court is a lot easier to navigate when you have a knowledgeable guide.Lots of attorneys are intimidated by handling cases in federal court, full disclosure, including me.Federal judges are…
Jotwell
Judicial Sovereignty-Making at the Country’s Start
Kevin Arlyck, The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789–1825 (2025). Marin K. Levy Melville’s Ishmael declares in the opening chapter of Moby Dick, “Whenever I find…
Original Jurisdiction
Judging The Justice System In The Age Of Trump: Nancy Gertner
By David Lat
Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at…
PrawfsBlawg
Certiorari Before Judgment But Under Submission
Main Tuesday, August 26, 2025Certiorari Before Judgment But Under SubmissionA certiorari petition is before the Court in the tariffs challenge. The en banc Federal Circuit heard the case last month.…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Threats to US federal judges who opposed Trump tick up
Judges have encountered unsolicited pizza deliveries in the name of a judge’s son killed in 2020
PrawfsBlawg
Cross-ideological benefits
Main Monday, June 16, 2025Cross-ideological benefitsSCOTUS granted cert in First Choice Women's Resource Ctrs. v. Platkin to resolve "'[w]hether, when the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a…
Southern California Appellate News
Fed Stats out!
The annual fed courts stats report is available!Judicial Business 2024 -- This report presents statistics on the work of the federal Judiciary for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, comparing data…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Unanimously Holds That Federal Courts Lose Jurisdiction Over State Law Claims After Plaintiff Purges Federal Law Claims
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Mark Magyar, Monika Harris, Harry Merz
On January 15, 2025, in Royal Canin v. Wullschleger, the Supreme Court held that when a plaintiff amends a complaint to eliminate federal law claims—leaving only state law claims—federal courts…