Federal appellate daily recap for Monday, July 20, 2026.

1. 0:00 Opening headlines
2. 0:47 David Chen
3. 0:49 James Taylor: Criminal Justice
4. 1:47 David Chen
5. 1:50 Aisha Johnson: Civil Rights & Constitutional
6. 4:02 David Chen
7. 4:05 Michael Reeves: Supreme Court & Constitutional
8. 5:07 David Chen
9. 5:11 Maria Santos: Business & Regulatory
10. 7:07 David Chen
11. 7:11 Raj Patel: Immigration & Government
12. 8:14 David Chen

Welcome to Do It For The Case Law for Monday July twentieth two thousand twenty-six. Visit do it for the case law dot com to listen to more in-depth, per-case reporting. Today we are covering ninety cases across eight federal circuits. Please subscribe to our feed for daily updates. Do It For The Case Law is a news reporting service. We summarize and discuss federal appellate opinions. Nothing in this broadcast…

Let’s turn to James covering criminal justice.

Thanks, David. I have thirty-three cases for you today. Twenty-four were affirmed, four appeals were dismissed, and five outcomes involved reversals or remands. In the Tenth Circuit, two cases regarding image offenses and child abuse sentencing were affirmed. Moving to the Fourth Circuit, an appeal was dismissed for being filed nearly three years late. A sentence was vacated because a Second Amendment challenge was…

Thanks, James. Now let’s turn to Aisha for civil rights.

Thanks, David. Twenty-two cases this hour. Twenty affirmed, two denied. In the Tenth Circuit, Hua Jiang sought en banc rehearing in her employment discrimination case against Tulsa and was denied while a judge dissented on pretext analysis. Cheryl Hileman’s Americans with Disabilities Act claim failed in the Third Circuit because she did not notify her employer of a need for accommodation. Moving to the Fourth…

Thanks, Aisha. Let’s turn to Michael covering constitutional law.

Thanks, David. We have eleven cases today in this constitutional law block. Eight were affirmed, two appeals were dismissed for lack of a certificate of appealability, and one was reversed on habeas review. Starting with the Fourth Circuit, the court affirmed Davis and Amadi in their Section twenty-two fifty-four petitions. It dismissed Berry and McCoy from appeal because they failed to secure a certificate of…

Thanks, Michael. Let’s turn to Maria covering business labor and civil.

Thanks, David. I have nine cases today from across the circuits. Six were affirmed while three resulted in a remand or vacatur. In the Tenth Circuit, the court affirmed Jeffrey Scott Smith Jr.’s conviction and sentence in United States versus Smith, rejecting arguments regarding the denial of a pretrial continuance and holding that a police officer’s manual deactivation of bodycam recording devices constitutes…

Thanks, Maria. Now let’s turn to Raj covering immigration and government cases.

Thanks, David. Fifteen cases today with one reversed remanded, eight denied immigration petitions, and six affirmed lower court or agency decisions. In the Tenth Circuit, the court reversed a judgment in Ward against National Credit Systems, ruling that Fair Credit Reporting Act claims require proof of objectively inaccurate information. Moving to the Fourth Circuit, two immigration petitions were denied in…

Welcome back to Do It For The Case Law, Monday July twenty, two thousand twenty-six. Today we covered ninety federal appellate opinions across five circuits. A huge thank you to James Taylor for handling thirty-three cases on the criminal justice beat. Aisha Johnson brought us twenty-two civil rights rulings. Michael Reeves delivered eleven constitutional law updates. Maria Santos reported on nine business and labor…

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