Federal appellate daily recap for Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

1. 0:00 Opening headlines
2. 0:24 David Chen
3. 0:26 James Taylor: Criminal Justice
4. 4:13 David Chen
5. 4:17 Aisha Johnson: Civil Rights & Constitutional
6. 6:07 David Chen
7. 6:11 Michael Reeves: Supreme Court & Constitutional
8. 8:54 David Chen
9. 8:57 Maria Santos: Business & Regulatory
10. 11:19 David Chen
11. 11:22 Raj Patel: Immigration & Government
12. 13:45 David Chen

Welcome to Do It For The Case Law for Tuesday, September first, 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 one hundred fourteen federal appellate decisions across five reporter beats. Do It For The Case Law is a news reporting service. We summarize and discuss federal appellate opinions. Nothing in this broadcast constitutes…

Let’s turn to James covering criminal justice.

Thanks, David. Thirty-four cases on the docket today. Twenty-one affirmed, one dismissed, seven denied, three reversed, and two vacated with remands. We start with the split outcomes and movements. In the Tenth Circuit, the court reversed summary judgment in a Title IX case involving Eastern New Mexico University, holding that a genuine dispute exists over whether the school exercised substantial control over a…

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

Thanks, David. Aisha Johnson here with sixteen civil rights and employment cases from the First, Tenth, Eleventh, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits. The disposition rollup is one vacated and remanded, two reversed and remanded, one dismissed, and twelve affirmed. We start in the First Circuit where a three-judge panel vacated summary judgment for the government in a challenge to Puerto Rico’s birth certificate policy,…

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

Thanks, David. Today in constitutional and habeas law, we have twenty-four substantive opinions across six circuits. The disposition mix includes eight affirmances, ten dismissals, five denials of certificates of appealability or appeals, and one vacatur with remand that resulted in a dismissal on remand. Leading the docket is a significant procedural ruling from the Ninth Circuit in Dinkins versus California. The…

Thanks, Michael. Now for business and civil law, let’s turn to Maria.

Thanks, David. Today’s business and civil docket covers twenty-two cases across six circuits with nineteen substantive opinions and three grouped affirmances. The disposition rollup shows fourteen affirmed, four reversed, one vacated, one remanded in part on reversal, and one split outcome. Moving to the Tenth Circuit, the court reversed and remanded a denial of arbitration in Joyner versus Frontier Airlines,…

Thanks, Maria. Now for immigration and government news with Raj.

Thanks, David. Today we have eighteen cases from across the federal appellate courts. The disposition rollup includes one vacatur and remand, one affirmation, and sixteen denials or dismissals. First, in a significant development in the Fifth Circuit, the court vacated and remanded an environmental dispute involving Plaquemines Parish against Exxon Mobil and Chevron to align with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in…

That wraps our broadcast for Tuesday, September first, two thousand twenty-six. Thank you to James Taylor for thirty-four cases on criminal justice, Aisha Johnson for sixteen on civil rights, Michael Reeves for twenty-four covering SCOTUS and constitutional law, Maria Santos for twenty-two in business and labor, and Raj Patel for eighteen on immigration and government matters. Today’s docket saw seventy affirmances,…

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