A federal judge didn’t have the authority to rule when he found a Washington, D.C., gun law likely violated the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A federal appeals court on Friday vacated a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone metadata, while allowing the plaintiff to try to…
In a series of decisions starting with Brady v. Maryland in 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court carved out a rule stating essentially that prosecutors violate the due process clause…
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the conspiracy conviction of Osama bin Laden’s spokesperson in an opinion that narrowed the types of crimes that can be tried by military…
The U.S. Department of State has “failed to respond substantively” to five of six Freedom of Information Act requests made as long ago as 2010 concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton, the…
The fatal shooting three years ago of an unarmed Florida teenager in a gated community by volunteer neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman “was a devastating tragedy,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder…
In a first for the U.S. Army, the commandant of the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison where Chelsea Manning is being held has approved female hormone treatment.
In a federal lawsuit filed last week against a former client, Venable doesn’t simply accuse Overseas Lease Group Inc. of failing to pay a $300,000 bill.
A group called Priests for Life says it won’t comply with a federal appeals court ruling on Friday upholding an accommodation that allows religious nonprofits to opt out from providing…
After news that the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., has agreed to dismiss 28 drug cases, including approximately a dozen that had already resulted in convictions, defense lawyers are…
After about two months of trial and seven weeks of deliberation, a federal jury in Washington, D.C., has convicted four former Blackwater Worldwide private security contractors in the 2007 slaying…