An already convoluted case concerning the power of federal courts to intervene in government decisions about where to transfer detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison has been further complexified…
Federal appeals Judge Merrick Garland tends to have more of a law-and-order focus than other Democratic appointees on his court, likely because of views influenced by his prosecutor background and…
The former chief of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt of Congress for withholding information from a U.S.…
Two court decisions on Friday tried to sort out the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s January campaign finance ruling in Citizens United v. Federal…
A onetime associate of Nixon Peabody has settled an insider-trading complaint brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission without admitting or denying the allegations made against her.
The Federal Trade Commission says it will appeal a federal judge’s decision upholding the American Bar Association’s position that the so-called Red Flags Rule doesn’t apply to lawyers.
It began with an administrative law judge’s request for a disabled parking space near the building where he works for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington,…
After being sanctioned $20,000 in another jurisdiction over her “wild accusations” in a case that challenged the nation’s president’s authority to govern, attorney Orly…
A former staff attorney of Covington & Burling can proceed with her federal discrimination claim over the law firm’s policy of assigning work, based on a disparate impact theory.
In what one observer described as a case of “compliance roulette” marking an apparent new era of federal enforcement concerning illegal foreign bribes, 22 people—including corporate executives and at least…
Already in hot water with the National Basketball Association over a Dec. 21 incident in which he admittedly brought unloaded guns into the locker room in apparent violation of league…
The Federal Communications Commission was on the hot seat today in a much-watched appellate court case implicating the agency’s power to regulate the Internet.
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