<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>U.S. Court of Appeals: News &amp; Videos about U.S. Court of Appeals - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_Court_of_Appeals</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. Court of Appeals from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:56:22 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>U.S. Court of Appeals: News &amp; Videos about U.S. Court of Appeals - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/CRIME/09/17/new.orleans.police.beating/tztop.evangelist.cnn.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_Court_of_Appeals</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. Court of Appeals from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>New Orleans officer fired in '05 beating can go back to job</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/new.orleans.police.beating/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/new.orleans.police.beating/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A New Orleans police officer who was fired after the 2005 beating of an unarmed man on Bourbon Street was ordered reinstated to his job by an appeals court, the court clerk told CNN on Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds seizure of baseball players' drug tests ruled illegal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/26/steroids.ruling/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/26/steroids.ruling/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that federal investigators' seizure of drug-test results of more than 90 major league baseball players five years ago was illegal.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Judge Kozinski admonished for explicit items on Web site</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/02/judge.explicit.files/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/02/judge.explicit.files/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A judicial council on Thursday admonished the chief judge of the nation's largest federal appeals court for having "sexually explicit photos and videos" on his personal Web site, but decided against any further punishment.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: GOP plays identity politics, too</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/05/navarrette.estrada/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/05/navarrette.estrada/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>By nominating U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, President Obama made history. 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Thank you.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Break the mold for Supreme Court picks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/04/ifill.court/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/04/ifill.court/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>I sometimes marvel that I probably couldn't get hired at my law school today.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Souter news sets off succession speculation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/01/obama.souter/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/01/obama.souter/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In Washington and throughout the nation's legal system, speculation took off Friday over who may join the Supreme Court after the retirement of Justice David Souter.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 20:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: Obama's first judicial pick signals fight for control</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/18/obama.judiciary/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/18/obama.judiciary/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama took the first step Tuesday in what could be a legacy-making effort to restock the federal courts with more progressives, naming an Indiana political veteran as his first judicial nominee.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Court upholds most charges against former Alabama governor</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/06/alabama.governor.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/06/alabama.governor.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A federal appeals court on Friday upheld most of the charges against former Alabama Gov. 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LOUIS -- Three appellate court judges took less than an hour Thursday to hear arguments from lawyers representing Major League Baseball and CDM Fantasy Sports in the latest fight over who owns the rights to player statistics. 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Evanko, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that police officers may constitutionally shave large amounts of hair from a suspect's head, neck, and shoulders, without a warrant, probable cause, or any basis for suspecting that the hair would provide evidence of crime.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Jeffrey Toobin: More Pledge challenges likely</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/14/toobin.pledge/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/14/toobin.pledge/index.html</guid><description>On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that a California father could not challenge the Pledge of Allegiance.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are 'Friends' writers 'required' to engage in sexual banter?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/grossman.friends/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/grossman.friends/index.html</guid><description>As the sun sets this week on "Friends," NBC's long-running hit sitcom, the writers, producers and network remain embroiled in litigation.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2004 20:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>What the asterisks can't hide</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/27/moussaoui.court/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/27/moussaoui.court/index.html</guid><description>Those who like word-guessing games might enjoy the opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit handed down last week in the Moussaoui case. 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Newdow.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush uses recess appointment to put nominee on court</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/20/bush.pryor/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/20/bush.pryor/index.html</guid><description>President Bush Friday gave a recess appointment to Bill Pryor, naming him to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals months after Senate Democrats had filibustered to block his nomination, Pryor told CNN.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Supreme Court upholds killer's stay of execution</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/10/cooper.execution/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/10/cooper.execution/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. Supreme Court late Monday refused to overturn a stay of execution for convicted killer Kevin Cooper, following a federal appeals court's decision to take a new look at evidence in the 20-year-old case.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 05:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Court keeps Gitmo detainee from seeing lawyer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/05/scotus.gitmo.detainee/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/05/scotus.gitmo.detainee/index.html</guid><description>The Supreme Court Thursday granted the government's request to keep a terrorism suspect being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from seeing his lawyer, at least until the justices decide the larger legal issue of what rights other "enemy combatants" are afforded.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2004 01:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. seeks stay of order giving detainee access to lawyer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/29/scotus.gitmo.detainees/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/29/scotus.gitmo.detainees/index.html</guid><description>The Supreme Court was asked by the Justice Department Wednesday to delay giving a terrorism suspect detained overseas access to a lawyer until the justices decide the larger legal issue of what rights other so-called "enemy combatants" are afforded.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush puts Pickering on appeals court</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/16/bush.pickering/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/16/bush.pickering/index.html</guid><description>President Bush used executive powers Friday to bypass Congress and grant a spot on the federal appeals bench to U.S. District Judge Charles Pickering, stoking a long-simmering feud with Senate Democrats over judicial nominations.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Holiday decorations, religion clauses and the Supreme Court</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/01/findlaw.analysis.hamilton.decorations/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/01/findlaw.analysis.hamilton.decorations/index.html</guid><description>Recently, various incidents involving holiday decorations have shown that the public's -- and even government officials' -- understanding of the legal rules in this area is far from clear. That is disappointing, for the relevant Supreme Court cases were decided more than a decade ago.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Notable Quotable</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/02/327916/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/02/327916/index.htm</guid><description>"The parties are advised to chill" </description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>After All This Time, Why Don't People Know What             Sexual Harassment Means?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/01/12/236413/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/01/12/236413/index.htm</guid><description>DEAR READERS: It's a very odd state of affairs (no pun intended): Sexual harassment in the workplace has been illegal under federal law since 1977, and in the past two decades has unquestionably go...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The gat approach to crime control, the case of the random liberals, good gouging, and other matters. ASK MR. STATISTICS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/12/27/78773/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/12/27/78773/index.htm</guid><description>Dear Oddsgiver: I am one of the millions of newspaper readers who thought of you whilst reading about the latest constitutional imbroglio before the American judiciary. The issue is whether the Cli...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The secret about beer, the importance of being miserable, the last word on pulchritude, and other matters. TWO DUMB LAWS: A NO-P</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/12/14/77231/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/12/14/77231/index.htm</guid><description>As adumbrated in the headline, the news is bad for partisans of rationality in public policy. Herewith glum tidings about the recent adventures of two laws notoriously lacking backing among economi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>How Bill correlates with Hillary, what boys think about, the latest test for cops, and other matters. THE LATEST DODGE IN REVERS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/24/76773/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/24/76773/index.htm</guid><description>Our title alludes of course to ''banding.'' Wait. Strike the ''of course.'' The honest-to-God truth is that your servant had not heard of banding -- at least not in the affirmative-action context -...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ARE WORK TEAMS ILLEGAL?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/13/75979/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/13/75979/index.htm</guid><description>Management-worker teams, like those used by Corning, Du Pont, and General Mills to improve quality and productivity, could soon get a shot in the arm -- or a blow to the head -- via a test case inv...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Guess what's sacred at Stanford, the case for ageism, panhandler rights, and other matters. SLIPPING</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/17/74443/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/12/17/74443/index.htm</guid><description>Your servant senses that it is time for a little more back talk on the subject of ageism. Every time you turn around these days, there is another uplifting editorial deploring bias against the oldi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THIS JUST IN </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/09/01/86066/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1990/09/01/86066/index.htm</guid><description>-- Could you afford your house if you were buying it today? Asked that question as part of our Consumer Comfort Index polling (see page 25), a full 51% of Americans said no. -- The New York State C...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to save $100 billion, how to beat the point spread, how to make fudge, and other matters. ONLY IN AMERICA (Cont'd)</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/10/24/71133/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/10/24/71133/index.htm</guid><description>Ranchers whose livestock are threatened by grizzly bears have no constitutional right to shoot ((them)), . . a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. Ruling in the case of a Montana rancher who los...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Whales With Ulcers, 43 Years of Misery, The Only Way to Travel, and Other Matters. Only in America (cont'd)</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/06/70600/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/06/70600/index.htm</guid><description>CINCINNATI -- State prison administrators can cut an inmate's hair, even if he objects for religious reasons . . . A three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . . rejected the ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adam Smith on Smoking, Whizzer White on Drinking, Liberals on Feeling Good, and Other Matters. Sacred Bodies</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70550/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70550/index.htm</guid><description>Smokers' rights are collapsing everywhere (see above), but drunks and druggies possibly have more rights than is desirable. In employment situations, alcoholics have often been protected by the not...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Murder, They Write, No Time to Be Stingy, Contagion on the Court, and Other Matters. Only in America (cont'd)</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/13/68866/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/13/68866/index.htm</guid><description>The boss's girlfriend gets the job, but that isn't sex discrimination. So says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a case involving seven male respiratory therapists at Westchester ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Our Unbiased Markets, The Antler Lobby Strikes Again, Virtue at Chrysler, and Other Matters. New Hope for Overknocked Knees</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/10/13/68137/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/10/13/68137/index.htm</guid><description>''I do not want to pretend to an excess of virtue or public spiritedness,'' wrote Chairman Gerald Greenwald of Chrysler Motors, instantly alerting readers of his article in the New York Times to th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Up from Serendipity, How to Blow a Billion, Relaxing in Leningrad, and Other Matters. The Importance of Changing the Diapers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/02/03/67062/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/02/03/67062/index.htm</guid><description>RICHMOND, Va. -- The need for security during visits with prison inmates outweighs an infant's right to privacy, a federal appeals court has ruled . . . The United States Court of Appeals for the F...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Just Asking Marx's Breakfast, Tuesday's Children, The Bishops' Fog, and Other Matters.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/11/66568/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/11/66568/index.htm</guid><description>Herewith more long-winded questions to which answers would be redundant at best, and besides, who would be crazy enough to believe them? ) Did the folks at Morgan Stanley ever gleefully consider th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Cable wins a big one</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/19/66355/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/19/66355/index.htm</guid><description>Three federal judges dealt a stunning blow to television broadcasters by ruling that local cable television systems did not have to carry the signals of all the television stations in their service...</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>