Judge dismisses Rider U. hazing charges
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A judge on Tuesday dismissed charges against two Rider University officials in a case involving the drinking death of a fraternity pledge.
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A judge on Friday acquitted a business owner, manager and promoter accused of manslaughter in a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people. In his ruling, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter agreed with defense attorneys that prosecutors had failed to show the men played any role in causing the tragedy.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a unit of Boeing Co that charged the firm helped fly terrorism suspects abroad to secret prisons.
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A military judge on Monday dismissed terrorism-related charges against a prisoner charged with killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, in a stunning reversal for the Bush administration's attempts to try Guantanamo detainees in military court.
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Judge says law violates free speech, orders blocking stopped.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.
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A Maryland judge has dismissed a challenge to the state's electronic voting system and ruled that elections officials have made a reasonable effort to ensure that votes will be counted properly in November.
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Description: A Colorado judge dismisses the felony sexual assault case against basketball player Kobe Bryant at the request of prosecutors, who said Bryant&#39;s accuser does not want it to go forward.
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Military judges dismissed charges Monday against a Guantanamo detainee accused of chauffeuring Osama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, throwing up roadblocks to the Bush administration's attempt to try terror suspects in military courts.
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Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.
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Cockfighting is not a native Hawaiian cultural practice protected by the state constitution, a judge ruled in rejecting a lawsuit filed by two Maui men.
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A judge has dismissed charges against a war protester who was arrested during a visit by President Bush last spring.
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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 has struck down a law which bans the sale of bootleg recordings of live music in the United States. Judge Harold Baer Jr, sitting in New York, dismissed charges against a Manhattan-based record dealer which had been brought under the law.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - The military judge presiding at Omar Khadr's war crimes tribunal dismissed all the charges against the young Canadian on Monday, saying he did not meet the definition of those subject to trial under a new law.
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A US district judge yesterday dismissed Victor Conte&#39;s motion for dismissal of the steroid charges against him, increasing the likelihood that the case concerning Conte&#39;s Bay Area Laboratory
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A judge has rejected requests to unseal the grand jury investigation of the sex-and-booze scandal surrounding the University of Colorado football program, saying he could only release the report had no indictment been returned.