A driver of a road grader who was injured in a foggy collision with a Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Co. train can’t proceed with a suit saying the train was traveling too fast because weather conditions don’t create an exception to the federal law governing national speed standards, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.

An Illinois public employee union lacked standing to pursue claims alleging a U.S. Supreme Court decision that nonmembers can’t be forced to pay agency fees abridges the union’s own First Amendment rights, the Seventh Circuit said Monday.

A Virgin Islands tax on timeshares is constitutional despite overwhelmingly impacting people who aren’t residents of the islands, an appeals court ruled.

The federal judiciary’s policy making arm is considering tightening financial disclosures rules for amicus or “friend of the court” briefs as lawmakers press for changes.

The Fourth Circuit appears inclined to dismiss an appeal in a case challenging Baltimore’s aerial surveillance program, described by the plaintiffs’ attorney during oral argument on Monday as “the most ambitious mass surveillance program ever deployed in an American city.”

An Omaha mental health facility isn’t liable for the killing of a woman by her ex-boyfriend who it had released just hours earlier because, although the man made threats of violence, they were directed toward someone else, the Nebraska Supreme Court said.