Court Throws Out Challenge to Blimp
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The United States is on the verge of winning its first fencing medal in twenty years.  Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou are out of the hospital but not out of the woods.
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The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
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Washington - The United States (US) Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the only state that allows gay marriages, declining to hear an appeal aimed at overturning the Massachusetts law that prompted a debate on the legality and morality of same-sex
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected the government's bid to force cigarette makers to pay &#36;280 billion in past profits, striking the toughest sanction from the racketeering case and lifting tobacco stocks.
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A US appeals court dismisses a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's domestic spying programme.
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A US appeals court on Thursday turned down ABB&#39;s (ABBN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) (ABB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) proposed $1.2 billion settlement of an asbestos lawsuit involving the Swiss engineering group&#39;s Combustion
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A controversial special damages claim that threatened to cripple the Financial Times is struck out by the High Court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on  Monday a free-speech challenge to a New York law banning the  wearing of masks at public gatherings by a group claiming ties  to the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Supreme Court has denied a challenge to the federal Do Not Call List. Telemarketing companies had filed an appeal, saying the registry violated First Amendment rights because some groups were exempt from the rules.
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A federal appeals court Friday rejected the government's attempt to recover $280 billion from tobacco companies, even if the Department of Justice prevails in its suit that the companies defrauded and misled the American public.
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The state Supreme Court removed a potential hurdle to hundreds of Hurricane Katrina lawsuits Wednesday, ruling that allegations hospitals lacked evacuation plans are not medical malpractice claims.
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday  rejected the government's bid to force cigarette makers to pay  $280 billion in past profits, striking the toughest sanction  from the racketeering case and lifting tobacco stocks.
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A federal appeals court Monday rejected Michigan's attempt to ban a procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion, ruling the law unconstitutional because it could also prohibit other abortion procedures.
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The US Supreme Court dismisses a legal challenge to an eavesdropping programme started after 9/11.
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A US judge throws out a lawsuit brought by seven inmates at Guantanamo Bay challenging their detention.
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A federal appeals court today rejected a bid by Zacarias Moussaoui that would have made him ineligible for the death penalty, clearing the way for the first U.S. trial on charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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The Ohio Supreme Court's chief justice on Thursday threw out a challenge to the state's presidential election results.