Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Appeals Court Decisions

A Pennsylvania prison guard twice sexually abused a prisoner, jury awards $ 20k in damages for each assault.

Jury could reasonably have concluded that you were the guy who did the assaulting.

Third Circuit: No and no. Third Circuit is purely a creature of the state.

South Carolina ACLU wants to record and publish an interview with a death row inmate.

A bodybuilder sells a testosterone-boosting herbal supplement called Diesel Test .

A disgruntled customers of Company B start mistakenly complaining to Company A , cease-and-desist letters and trademark-infringement litigation ensue.

The Seventh Circuit (en banc): Yes, and in so holding we realign our circuit with the Supreme Court's precedent.