Fifth Circuit Publicly Reveals Holds in Cases It May Rehear

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said its judges are publicly preventing over 20 of their recent rulings from going into effect, after the court said it will now make those holds visible to the public.

Holds have been issued in at least 22 cases, Fifth Circuit clerk Lyle Cayce said in an email Tuesday. The change to the Fifth Circuit’s internal procedures says that any judge, without disclosing their identity, can pause the mandate in a case from issuing as they “resolve differences” with the panel which ruled in the case, or request that the court ...