Americans generally have a First Amendment right to lie, and that protects the tall tales told by a man who claimed he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Attorney General Eric Holder reportedly called a pastor’s plan to burn Korans “idiotic and dangerous” in a private meeting Tuesday with religious leaders.
A Muslim job seeker claims in a lawsuit that an Abercrombie & Fitch manager refused to hire her, telling her that a head scarf is not part of the “Abercrombie…
A Florida lawyer has sued the lawyer rating website Avvo, claiming it engages in “punitive, coercive and manipulative business practices” that are “beyond unfair.”
A federal appeals court is allowing a televangelist’s defamation suit claiming ABC’s 20/20 news program took a clip of one of his sermons out of context.
The New York City Bar says Mayor Michael Bloomberg did the right thing when he refused to interfere with plans to build an Islamic cultural center two blocks from ground…
Legal thriller author Scott Turow sees a connection between Rod Blagojevich’s conviction on just one count of lying to the FBI and “the hypocritical mess our…
A group of Benedictine monks is seeking a federal court order recognizing their claimed constitutional right to sell simple wooden coffins—at what they say is a considerably lower cost than…
This time, jurors deliberated only two hours before convicting a right-wing blogger for an Internet tirade in which he said Judge Richard Posner and two other federal appeals judges “deserved…
Three well-known federal appeals judges testified against a white supremacist blogger on Wednesday in his third trial for a tirade in which he said the jurists “deserveto be killed” and…
Wikipedia’s lawyer has fired off a letter to the FBI claiming the bureau cited an “aspirational version” of the law when it threatened a lawsuit over the website’s display of…
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