A Washington, D.C., law firm retained by Bradley Birkenfeld to help him tell U.S. authorities how a Swiss bank was aiding Americans in evading taxes is now seeking a 12.5…
Guantanimo Bay: Of the terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison, 600 have been transferred to other countries and 169 remain, according to an analysis by the New York Times and NPR. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File
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A federal court ruled that the state of Texas could not show that a new voter ID law would not harm the voting rights of its minorities and struck down…
Federal rules which require graphic warning images on cigarette packages were struck down today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, on the basis that the…
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to new Environmental Protection Agency regulations allowing for higher concentrations of corn-based ethanol in gasoline.
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…
The State Department can not engage in age discrimination, even if the employee resides in a country that condones the behavior, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of…
After blasting prosecutors in a Friday hearing, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday released a defendant in a Somali piracy case while the government appeals some of her…
Visibly angry and getting more so after learning shortly before trial that prosecutors could place a Somali piracy case defendant in international waters for only 24 to 28 minutes, a…
A federal judge district court judge in Washington, D.C., has sided with the Securities Investor Protection Corp. in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in an…
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…
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