Government Concedes Scalia Erasure Wrong
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The government has conceded that the U.S. Marshals Service violated federal law when a marshal ordered reporters with The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American to erase their recordings of a speech by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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DETROIT - A federal judge yesterday 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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A federal judge who once struck down Georgia's voter identification law has approved a revised version, dismissing a lawsuit aimed at stopping the state from enforcing the statute.
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WASHINGTON Â The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to toss out a lower court ruling that says the FBI was wrong to raid Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's office, a decision the Bush administration argues will hinder corruption investigations of Congress.
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A federal judge ruled that the provision broadly violated the Constitution by giving federal authorities unchecked powers to obtain private information.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out an agreement that Georgia reached with the Army Corps of Engineers for water rights to a major federal reservoir outside Atlanta, handing Alabama and Florida a major victory in the states' long-standing water wars.
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The justicesâ questioning on indicated a majority does not accept the basic argument brought by challengers to Indianaâs voter-identification law.
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The framers of the Constitution were sure they had covered all the bases. The election of 1800 proved them wrong.
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The Bush administration told the Supreme Court last night that, although the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own firearms, an appeals court used the wrong standards in declaring the D.C. handgun ban unconstitutional.
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In a blow to the Justice Department&#39;s post-Sept. 11 powers, a federal judge said the government&#39;s ability to conduct secret and unchallengable searches of Internet and telephone records violates the Constitution.
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Voting 9 to 0, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that found the system for choosing nominees to the stateâs trial court unconstitutional.
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The US Supreme Court rules that the race of a child cannot be used to determine the school he or she goes to.
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A bid to amend plans to make inciting racial hatred a crime is defeated by the government.
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The Supreme Court rejected a request from The Times to stay a lower courtÂs decision allowing a a federal prosecutor to review the telephone records of two reporters.
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The naked truth, the Supreme Court says, is that the Constitution's free speech guarantee doesn't protect a police officer who used the Internet to sell videotapes of himself stripping off his uniform and pretending to write tickets.
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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a federal judge was wrong to overturn a guilty verdict against a former naval intelligence officer accused of kidnapping and murdering his wife, and found that there was no evidence to support the judge's contention that the prosecution committed misconduct.
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A magistrate who disagrees with new rights for gay couples loses his discrimination case.