United States v. X-Citement Video,Inc.,513 U.S. 64 (1994),was a federal criminal prosecution filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles against X-Citement Video and its owner,Rubin Gottesman,on three charges of trafficking in child pornography,specifically videos featuring the underaged Traci Lords. In 1989,a federal judge found Gottesman guilty and later sentenced him to one year in jail and a $100,000 fine.
Edith Hollan Jones is a United States circuit judge and the former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Hopwood v. Texas,78 F.3d 932,was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. In Hopwood,four white plaintiffs who had been rejected from University of Texas at Austin's School of Law challenged the institution's admissions policy on equal protection grounds and prevailed. After seven years as a precedent in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,the Hopwood decision was abrogated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003.
Harris L Hartz is an American jurist and lawyer who serves as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Fortunato Pedro Benavides was an American judge. From 1994 until 2023,he served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Jerry Edwin Smith is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
William Mark Lanier is an American trial lawyer and founder and CEO of the Lanier Law Firm. He has led a number of high profile product litigation suits resulting in billions of dollars in damages,including Johnson &Johnson baby powder and Merck &Co.'s Vioxx drug.
Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes &Lerach,523 U.S. 26 (1998),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that a district court conducting coordinated pretrial proceedings in multiple cases by designation of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation under 28 U.S.C. §1407(a) has no authority to reassign a transferred case to itself for the actual trial of the case. The Court's decision overturned numerous lower-court decisions upholding what had become a common practice in multi-district cases.
Stanley Marcus is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Robert Lanier Anderson III is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
James Leon Dennis is an American lawyer,jurist,and former politician serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,with chambers in New Orleans,Louisiana.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down nine per curiam opinions during its 2000 term,which began October 2,2000 and concluded September 30,2001.
Baker v. Wade 563 F.Supp 1121,rev'd 769 F.2nd 289 cert denied 478 US 1022 (1986) is a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the sodomy law of the state of Texas. Plaintiff Donald Baker contended that the law violated his rights to privacy and equal protection. After a victory at trial,an appellate court reversed the lower court's decision and in the wake of its decision in Bowers v. Hardwick the Supreme Court of the United States refused to review it.
United States v. Kilbride,584 F.3d 1240 is a case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejecting an appeal from two individuals convicted of violating the Can Spam Act and United States obscenity law. The defendants were appealing convictions on 8 counts from the District Court of Arizona for distributing pornographic spam via email. The second count which the defendants were found guilty of involved the falsification of the "From" field of email headers,which is illegal to do multiple times in commercial settings under 18 USC §1037(a)(3). The case is particularly notable because of the majority opinion on obscenity,in which Judge Fletcher writes an argument endorsing the use of a national community obscenity standard for the internet.
Stephen Andrew Higginson is a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
De Leon v. Perry was a federal lawsuit challenging Texas marriage law,specifically the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and corresponding statutes. A U.S. district court ruled in favor of the plaintiff same-sex couples on February 26,2014,granting their motion for a preliminary injunction. The state defendants filed an interlocutory appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,as the disposition on the motion was not a final ruling in the case. On April 14,2014,the plaintiffs filed a motion for an expedited hearing,which was denied on May 21,2014. The plaintiffs filed another motion for an expedited hearing on October 6,2014,after the Supreme Court of the United States denied appeals in other marriage equality cases,and the motion was granted on October 7,2014,setting a hearing for November 2014. However,on October 27,2014,the Fifth Circuit set oral arguments for January 9,2015.
Halo Electronics,Inc. v. Pulse Electronics,Inc.,579 U.S. ___ (2016),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the two-part Seagate test,used to determine when a district court may increase damages for patent infringement,is not consistent with Section 284 of the Patent Act.
National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System was a court case that was first decided in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on February 22,2019,declaring that requiring men but disallowing women to register for the draft for military service in the United States was unconstitutional. The ruling did not specify which actions the government needed to take to resolve the conflict with the constitution. That ruling was reversed by the Fifth Circuit.
Commil USA,LLC v. Cisco Systems,Inc., 135 S.Ct. 1920 (2015),was a 2015 decision by the United States Supreme Court pertaining to the standard for induced patent infringement. Writing for a 6-2 majority,Justice Anthony Kennedy held that (1) a claim of induced infringement requires a showing that the defendant knew that it is engaging in infringing conduct and (2) a defendant's belief that a patent is invalid is not a defense to a claim of induced infringement. Justice Antonin Scalia dissented from the second point,arguing that,in his view,a good faith belief in a patent's invalidity should constitute a defense to a charge of induced infringement.
Dana Marie Douglas is an American attorney who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
