( September 14, 2026, 2:12 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Affirming denial of a university’s motion to strike a former student’s complaint, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 11 held that Louisiana’s anti-SLAPP statute “does not apply in federal court” because it conflicts with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12 and 56, which “are valid under the Rules Enabling Act”; writing separately dubitante, one panel member briefly said there was a lack of clarity regarding how the appellate court had “interlocutory appellate jurisdiction.”...