Judge dismisses Medicaid law challenge
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A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to a law that requires millions of Medicaid beneficiaries to prove their citizenship before obtaining health benefits.
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A federal judge ruled on Thursday that  the government's ban on a procedure opponents call partial  birth abortion was unconstitutional because it failed to  provide an exception to protect a mother's health.
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A New York state judge dismissed most of a lawsuit accusing H&R Block of charging excessive fees on individual retirement accounts.
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A judge rules that doctors caring for a terminally-ill baby can withhold treatment if his condition worsens.
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A judge in a contentious right-to-die battle has refused to reconsider his ruling allowing a man to remove the feeding tube keeping his brain-damaged wife alive.
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A federal appeals court has rejected the Bush administration&#39;s request for a new hearing on Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s attempt to shut down Oregon&#39;s assisted-suicide law by punishing doctors who prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients.
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The U.S. government asked a judge yesterday to dismiss a Falls Church couple's challenge of their son's imprisonment based on reasons and evidence that would be kept secret from the family and the public.
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A federal judge dismissed a large part of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., saying that U.S. law does not cover many of AMD's claims.
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A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by parents who wanted to keep their young children from learning about gay marriage in school.
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Officials from a suburban Massachusetts school district asked a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two couples who claim their parental rights were violated when homosexuality was discussed in their children's classrooms.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Citing lack of bed space, a judge on Tuesday refused to find the state human services agency in contempt of court for failing to find room in state psychiatric hospitals for mentally incompetent jail inmates.
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The judge presiding over a Vioxx personal injury trial in Atlantic City rejected a motion to give one of the two plaintiffs a second chance at winning damages.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court turned away a challenge Monday to the federal do-not-call registry, ending telemarketers' bid to invoke free-speech arguments to get the popular ban on unwanted phone solicitations thrown out.    The court, without comment, let stand a 10th U.S...
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A federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion for class-action status for personal injury and wrongful death cases involving Merck & Co.'s  withdrawn Vioxx painkiller.
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According to wire services, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected a claim by auto insurance giant Geico, which argued that Google should not be allowed to sell ads to rival insurance companies that appear whenever Geico&#39;s name is typed into the
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A federal judge has dismissed a large  portion of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit  against Intel Corp., saying that U.S. law does not cover many  of AMD's claims.
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A federal appeals court Tuesday blocked a judge's order that would have required the county that includes Jacksonville to install dozens of handicapped-accessible voting machines before the November election.