An East Texas-based food company specializing in fajita meat has agreed to pay $392,000 to settle a dispute over how its resale of meat intended for pet food ended up…
Setting the stage for a constitutional showdown during a presidential election year, an expected effort has begun to enforce a historic contempt citation of a sitting U.S. attorney general by…
Nearly 70 former federal judges and prosecutors are taking the side of a defendant and urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an appeal of a doctor trying to…
Eight employees in a Justice Department division that oversees the hiring of administrative and back-office workers violated nepotism laws and regulations by hiring relatives, according to a report by the…
The U.S. Justice Department has announced that Wells Fargo will pay at least $175 million to resolve claims of bias against minority mortgage borrowers in the second largest fair-lending settlement…
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that it is joining with the FBI to review thousands of criminal cases to determine whether flawed hair evidence tainted the convictions.
Saying that it wasn’t a crime for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to withhold information sought by a congressional committee concerning the feds’ botched Fast and Furious gun-trafficking investigation, the…
Updated: The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt concerning documents sought by a committee reviewing the botched Fast and Furious federal gun-trafficking…
Critics say the Obama administration failed to appeal to conservative justices when it portrayed health care as a unique marketplace that could be regulated under the commerce clause.
Saying that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has not fully cooperated with an investigation of the government’s flawed “Operation Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking sting, a Republican-led House of Representatives committee…
The partial acquittal and mistrial on Thursday in the John Edwards trial is the second high-profile loss this year for the Justice Department’s public integrity section.
On June 26, 1973, the growing Watergate scandal was already a year old, and John W. Dean III, President Richard M. Nixon’s former White House counsel, was in his second…
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