The chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has issued a 42-page ruling blasting the U.S. attorney there over an alleged pattern of violations by…
A conservative who applied for two legal writing positions at the University of Iowa law school claims in a federal lawsuit that she was rejected for the jobs because of…
A California public defender reportedly is using a novel constitutional argument to support his contention in a state-court lawsuit that the local district attorney’s office is unfairly listening into conversations…
Will a new president in the White House make a difference in the ongoing investigation of alleged political interference in the hiring and firing of a number of U.S. Attorneys…
A police officer who has a reasonable suspicion that a car passenger is armed and dangerous may conduct a pat-down search without violating the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court…
Lawyers for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich are preparing a possible lawsuit to challenge procedures being used in his upcoming impeachment trial. But it may never be filed.
A kindergartener in Texas may continue to wear his hair long, a federal judge has ruled, apparently finding that the school district’s policy of requiring the child to conceal his…
Because he got one word out of sequence when taking the oath of office during his inauguration yesterday, President Barack Obama took it again tonight out of an “abundance of…
A planned vote today by the Senate Judiciary Committee on whether to support Eric Holder’s nomination as U.S. attorney general has been delayed for a week at the request of…
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