The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft has immunity in a civil suit by a Muslim citizen who says he was unconstitutionally held…
Legal observers are agog over two very different versions of a ruling in a habeas corpus case ordering the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was held nearly eight…
A California student was visited first by the FBI and then by the American Civil Liberties Union after reports surfaced that his mechanic had found a GPS tracking device on…
A Manhattan prosecutor told a judge on Thursday that the Harvard law grad charged with setting fire to a Sept. 11 memorial chapel should get one to three years in…
A federal judge has delayed a major terrorism trial to give the government time to regroup after barring a major witness from testifying for the prosecution.
A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a woman who participated in a 2001 ecoterror attack on a university research center in Seattle.
Taking a page out a playbook being used in California and by a neighboring suburban Chicago county, officials in Kane County have filed a civil suit against 70 alleged gang…
A federal appeals court judge under fire for his signature on two so-called “torture memos” has written an opinion striking down a ban on tattoo parlors.
By a 6-5 vote, a sharply divided federal appeals court issued an opinion (PDF) today that has put the brakes on a lawsuit concerning a controversial CIA program…
A coalition of civil rights groups and criminal defense attorneys has sued the Department of Homeland Security over its alleged border searches and seizures, without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, of…
A federal judge in New York City is refusing to allow plaintiffs lawyers to collect $6.1 million in interest from ground zero clients to pay the interest on money borrowed…
The September issue of Vogue magazine has details on what to wear now, fall fashion at every price and the pressures of Eric Holder’s job as attorney general.