The decision means university President Walter Wendler could cancel an on-campus drag show next week. He canceled a previous show last year.

Legal experts say a 5th Circuit decision to uphold part of a Texas law regulating adult entertainment websites conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent regarding minors’ access to obscene material online.

A three-judge panel in New Orleans ruled that a Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent to obtain birth control does not conflict with the goals of the federally-funded Title X program, which has given teens birth control confidentially.

A Houston area mother is suing the Fort Bend Independent School District; claiming educators failed to protect her daughter from another student. The lawsuit reads this woman’s daughter was sexually assaulted twice by the same classmate, even though safeguards were in place to ensure neither student was unsupervised.

The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to uphold health care guidance issued last year that says hospitals must provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy.

An appellate court added another twist in the ongoing legal battle over buoys placed in the Rio Grande river as a deterrent to illegal immigration. Earlier this week a federal court judge ordered Texas to move the buoys to the riverbank, but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed that order roughly 24 hours after it was issued.

FIEL spokespeople and families affected by DACA gathered at the organization’s headquarters Tuesday morning to announce their trip to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans Wednesday.

A divided federal appeals court panel in New Orleans says a pilot and a flight attendant for United Airlines will suffer “irreparable harm” under the airline's COVID-19 vaccine requirements.

A federal appeals court is temporarily allowing the nation’s toughest abortion law to resume in Texas.

A federal appeals court is temporarily allowing the nation’s toughest abortion law to resume in Texas.

It wasn't immediately clear how the temporary order may affect access to abortions in the state. The law is constructed in a way that people who violate it could be liable to litigation if enforcement is reinstated.

The U.S. sued Texas after the Biden administration vowed to oppose Texas’ new near-total abortion ban. The lawsuit joins several legal challenges already in progress.

The ruling by Judge Drew Tipton comes after he had already temporarily paused the moratorium twice. The ruling is a victory for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who sued to block Biden's order three days into the Biden administration. AdTipton, a Trump appointee to the federal bench, wrote in his order that Texas would also incur costs for detaining immigrants within its state. It's unclear whether the Biden administration will appeal the ruling to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Texas' federal benches. Citizenship and Immigration Services agencies as the administration developed its final priorities, according to the Biden administration.