The Eleventh Circuit decided two administrative law cases of note in July. In the first, it rejected Florida’s constitutional challenges to the Department of Education’s use of private educational accreditors. In the second, the Eleventh Circuit sided with the IRS in a taxpayer’s challenge to the agency’s rejection of a deduction. Constitutional Challenges to Private […]

In June, a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit deepened a circuit split on a jurisdictional issue in immigration law. Judge Brasher, joined by Chief Judge Pryor, agreed with the Ninth Circuit and held that a court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to review the denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) unless the immigrant petitions […]

The Eleventh Circuit decided one administrative law case of note in the second half of May. In Citadel Securities LLC v. SEC, a panel of Judges Rosenbaum, Lagoa, and Marcus unanimously denied a petition for review of the SEC’s approval of a new options exchange under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Among other things, the […]

This post begins a new series reviewing the administrative law decisions of the Eleventh Circuit. The Eleventh Circuit is the third-busiest federal court of appeals, and it hears cases from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Over the past two weeks, the court decided three cases of note. First, it vacated an injunction against the construction of a detention […]