Court Suspends Enforcement of Indecency Ruling
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Television broadcasters won a temporary victory yesterday when a federal appeals court told the Federal Communications Commission not to enforce an indecency ruling it imposed on several television shows earlier this year.
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The federal judge who ordered a halt to   the Bush administration's program of domestic wiretapping on   Thursday allowed the surveillance to continue for a week to   allow an appeals court to weigh in on an issue expected to end   up with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A state appeals court on Tuesday lifted an order that had stopped San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy from being sworn in for a second term.
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A passenger in a car pulled over for a traffic violation can challenge the stop for violating the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday.
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The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated a Nevada child molester's conviction Wednesday in a decision that continued the justices' refusal to apply recent rulings on criminal procedure to older cases.
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A federal judge officially reduced the suspension of Indiana forward Jermaine O&#39;Neal on Thursday. A ruling by US District Judge George B. Daniels was made final, thus eliminating
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites deemed by the state&#39;s prosecuting attorneys to be child pornography has been overturned by a US federal court, with the judge ruling the law
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The Supreme Court has quashed charges of obscene exposure levied last year against avant-garde theater director Gerald Thomas, who mooned an audience after an opera performance.
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By HIRAN RATNAYAKE, LEE WILLIAMS and STEVEN CHURCH / The News Journal. In a decision affecting American military personnel around the world, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ordered the Pentagon to halt the
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A U.S. federal appeals court  has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) to suspend oil  exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast  of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by  environmental activists and Alaska native groups.
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By Wu Jiao  A revised judiciary rule from the Supreme People's Court, which came into effect on Friday, bans reprinting Internet material without obtaining preliminary approval from the copyright holder.
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A federal judged ruled that the Web site was not protected by the First Amendment because it incited criminal conduct.
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A federal judge ruled today that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings.
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A Las Vegas law prohibiting strippers from fondling customers during lap dances is unconstitutionally vague, a judge ruled.
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A federal judge suspended a ban on two television ads in the governor's race until the court can decide whether the pro-GOP messages were wrongly blocked by a Democrat-controlled elections board.
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A federal appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in Texas, one of the last states Â all in the South Â to retain such a ban.
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The government is violating the First Amendment by embarking on a "radical reinterpretation and expansion" of its power to punish broadcasters for indecent speech, a federal court was told Wednesday by Fox Television Stations Inc.