Federal appellate daily recap for Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

1. 0:00 Opening headlines
2. 0:47 David Chen
3. 0:49 James Taylor: Criminal Justice
4. 2:00 David Chen
5. 2:04 Aisha Johnson: Civil Rights & Constitutional
6. 3:32 David Chen
7. 3:36 Michael Reeves: Supreme Court & Constitutional
8. 4:24 David Chen
9. 4:27 Maria Santos: Business & Regulatory
10. 6:47 David Chen
11. 6:50 Raj Patel: Immigration & Government
12. 7:59 David Chen

Welcome to Do It For The Case Law for Wednesday, July twenty-second, two thousand twenty-six. Visit do it for the case law dot com to listen to more in-depth, per-case reporting. Today’s docket features forty-two federal appellate opinions across nine circuits. Our coverage spans criminal justice matters including drug trafficking and firearms cases from the Sixth Circuit, civil rights litigation involving Section…

Let’s turn to James covering criminal justice.

Thanks, David. We have thirteen cases from today’s docket. The disposition rollup shows ten affirmances, two dismissals, one vacatur and remand on the sentence, and one reversal and remand. We start in the Sixth Circuit where the court reversed and remanded Paul Spivak’s conviction for securities fraud after finding the indictment insufficient to provide notice of the specific charges under the Superseding Second…

Thanks, James. Next, Aisha has the civil rights and Second Amendment coverage.

Thanks, David. Ten cases on the docket today, all affirmed or dismissed with no reversals or remands. In the Tenth Circuit, Edward Hoid’s Second Amendment challenge to a news outlet was dismissed for failing to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure eight, and Angeliina Lawson’s Section nineteen eighty-three suit against Kansas judges was thrown out due to judicial immunity and *Younger* abstention….

Thanks, Aisha. Now Michael with constitutional law and habeas corpus.

Thanks, David. We have two cases today from the Fourth and Ninth Circuits. One was denied and one was affirmed. The Fourth Circuit denied Shahsultan Jaffer’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to vacate district court orders, disqualify the judge, and compel healthcare services. The court held mandamus is an extraordinary remedy available only when there is a clear right to relief and no other adequate means to…

Thanks, Michael. Let’s turn to Maria for the business and civil cases.

Thanks, David. We have eleven substantive business, labor, and civil cases today. The disposition mix includes four affirmances, three dismissals, two denials of petitions for review, one reversal and remand, and one split outcome where the court granted part of the petition and denied the rest. Moving to the Eleventh Circuit, the court dismissed an appeal by Diamond Realty against Monalito Hutchins sua sponte for…

Thanks, Maria. Raj has the immigration and government cases.

Thanks, David. We have six substantive opinions today from four circuits. Two were remanded, two affirmed, one denied, and one dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Starting in the Sixth Circuit, the court granted a petition for review in the case of Maher Sabri Hanna, vacating the Board of Immigration Appeals denial of his Convention Against Torture claim and remanding for an aggregate analysis of torture risk rather…

That wraps up our broadcast for Wednesday, July twenty-second, two thousand twenty-six. Thank you to James Taylor, Aisha Johnson, Michael Reeves, Maria Santos, and Raj Patel for your reporting today. We saw a total of fifty-eight cases across the circuits. Twenty-six appeals were affirmed, while eight decisions were reversed, vacated, or remanded, marking significant shifts in those rulings. Several appeals were…

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