The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is increasingly reviewing its own decisions, teeing up the influential court to hear more en banc cases this year than it has in over 15 years.
The New Orleans-based federal appeals court reheard five cases en banc in January, and has agreed to hear five more during a sitting in May. The court traditionally hears other pending en banc cases in October, and if the court agrees to take up at least one more this year, it’ll be the most since it heard 11 cases in 2003.
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