Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland apparently shuns outside income and gifts, according to financial disclosure reports he files as a federal appeals judge.
Judge Merrick Garland has been a federal appeals judge since 1997, but his long tenure may provide little grist for opponents of his Supreme Court nomination.
Liberal groups are unlikely to oppose federal appeals Judge Sri Srinivasan if he is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, despite some misgivings when he was nominated to the U.S.…
As a lawsuit continues seeking to overturn new Federal Communications Commission rules cutting the cost prisoners pay for phone calls, a federal appeals court has partially stayed the imposition of…
The Environmental Protection Agency has been ordered by a federal appeals court to issue long awaited, long-overdue rules to end the practice of mining companies declaring bankruptcy to avoid cleaning…
Due to a predicted monster snowstorm that could be one of the worst ever to hit the East Coast, courts, law libraries and other government offices in the Washington, D.C.,…
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by an airplane ride-arranging app that contended pilots finding passengers through its website didn’t need to have commercial licenses.
A federal judge didn’t have the authority to rule when he found a Washington, D.C., gun law likely violated the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A federal appeals court on Friday vacated a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone metadata, while allowing the plaintiff to try to…
In a series of decisions starting with Brady v. Maryland in 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court carved out a rule stating essentially that prosecutors violate the due process clause…
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the conspiracy conviction of Osama bin Laden’s spokesperson in an opinion that narrowed the types of crimes that can be tried by military…
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