A federal appeals court declined to lift a preliminary injunction blocking the state of Indiana from enforcing a law that makes it a crime for individuals to get closer than 25 feet to an on-duty police officer after the officer orders them to halt.

Two men who were injured and the estate of one man killed in a car crash while fleeing from the police after a robbery did not convince a federal appeals court that they are entitled to a new trial.

A federal judge in Oregon issued an injunction Wednesday temporarily stopping the mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants to humanities councils around the country, saying the cancellations were likely unconstitutional.

A federal judge lamented that the defendants in a business dispute apparently were not listening when he explained the requirements for keeping an opposing party’s expert off the witness stand.