Federal appellate daily recap for Tuesday, July 28, 2026.

Welcome to Do It For The Case Law for Tuesday, July twenty-eighth, 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 eighty-seven 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 legal…

Let’s turn to James covering criminal justice.

Thanks, David. Today I have thirty criminal justice opinions across seven circuits. In terms of outcomes, twenty-six were affirmed, two were dismissed, one was denied, and three resulted in reversals or remands. We will start with the mixed results before moving through the affirmances circuit by circuit. Over in the Eighth Circuit, the court reversed and remanded Benjamin Striplin’s case. The district court had…

Thanks, James. Aisha has the civil rights docket.

Thanks, David. We have ten cases today, nine from the Fourth and Tenth Circuits with a single case from the Fifth. The disposition mix is straightforward: all ten were either affirmed or dismissed. Starting in the Tenth Circuit, we have one substantive civil rights ruling. In Webster against CHP Correctional Health Partners, the court affirmed summary judgment for the private medical claims administrator in an…

Thanks, Aisha. Let’s turn to Michael for the constitutional and prisoner litigation updates.

Thanks, David. Fourteen cases today across the Eleventh and Fourth Circuits. The Eleventh Circuit issued one affirmance. Over in the Fourth Circuit, we saw one affirmance, two dismissals, and seven denials. Starting with the Eleventh Circuit, the court affirmed the dismissal of Curtis Nairn’s motion for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure sixty-b. The court held that his filing constituted an…

Thanks, Michael. Maria has the business and civil law roundup.

Thanks, David. We are looking at nineteen cases across eight circuits today. The disposition rollup is mixed: four reversals or remands, two split outcomes, and thirteen affirmances or denials. I will start with the decisions that changed the lower court’s result. Over in the Seventh Circuit, the court reversed a denial of remand in the Abbott Laboratories preterm infant nutrition litigation. The key issue was…

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

Thanks, David. Fourteen cases today across six circuits. The disposition rollup: one reversal and remand, four affirmed in part and reversed or dismissed in part, two denials of review, three dismissals for lack of jurisdiction, and four routine affirmances or denials. We start with the Fourth Circuit’s jurisdictional dismissal and a split affirmation-reversal on a frivolous appeal deadline issue. Then we move to…

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