Plaintiffs-appellants Geneal Warf and Glenn Gupton (“the Warf appellants”), individually and on behalf of a class of 542 absentee voters, appeal the district court’s order denying their motion for a preliminary injunction and granting summary judgment to defendants-appellees the Board of Elect...   MORE>>

This case involves the constitutionality of Colorado’s requirement that independent candidates for partisan public office be registered as unaffiliated with a political party for nearly seventeen months before the general election if they wish to appear on the general-election ballot. See Colo. Re...   MORE>>

Florida, by statute, restricts the use of state money for travel by state employees to countries that the federal government has listed as “State Sponsors of Terrorism.” See Fla. Stat. §§ 112.061(3)(e), 1011.90(6). Some professors and researchers at different state universities in Florida cont...   MORE>>

While a candidate for judicial office in Arizona, appellant Randolph Wolfson initiated this action against the members of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct, the members of the Arizona Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, and Arizona Chief Bar Counsel Robert Van Wyck (collectively, defenda...   MORE>>

Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc., sued the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, after the St. Paul City Council (“City Council”) enacted an ordinance prohibiting all billboard extensions. After settlement negotiations failed, the district court granted Clear Channel’s motion for partial summary judgment. T...   MORE>>

A non-profit organization gave an Interior Department economist a monetary award for his “public-spirited work [to prevent] oil companies[]” from underpaying the Mineral Management Service for oil extracted from federal lands. The government responded by charging both the organization and the ec...   MORE>>

Great Rivers Habitat Alliance (Great Rivers) and the Adolphus A. Busch Revocable Living Trust (Busch Trust) (collectively, appellants) appeal the dismissal of their case for lack of jurisdiction. The district court found appellants failed to exhaust their administrative remedies before the Federal E...   MORE>>

In March 2007, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM or Bureau), an agency within the Department of the Interior, released a Record of Decision that established the Atlantic Rim Natural Gas Field Development Project (Atlantic Rim Project). The project was designed to manage the resources of more than 2...   MORE>>

The National Labor Relations Board petitions for review of an order of the Federal Labor Relations Authority holding the Board engaged in an unfair labor practice, in violation of the Federal Services Labor-Management Relations Statute, 5 U.S.C. § 7116(a)(5). The Authority cross-petitions for enfor...   MORE>>

Who knew that simple math could be so tricky? The parties to this dispute, the State of California and two California Indian tribes, signed Gaming Compacts intended “to initiate a new era of tribal-state cooperation” with respect to gaming in the state. Central to the Compacts is a formula to ca...   MORE>>