appeals court

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A government lawyer told an appeals court earlier this month that it is too late for the courts to halt the president’s construction of the 90,000-square-foot building where the East Wing once stood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

An appeals court declined to intervene immediately, allowing the removal to proceed pending further arguments.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

A US appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried as part of a sweeping fraud case.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Its decision arrived just hours after the Supreme Court’s sixth reversal of the 5th Circuit so far this term, with several more likely to come—a humiliating record for the appeals court.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2026

He allegedly arranged for an appeals court to be bribed, and when these efforts failed to win him freedom, he boasted, as the evaluator noted, of “his probable release through influence of friends.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann