The federal Home Affordable Modification Program is supposed to help struggling owners get revised mortgage terms that will make it possible for them to hold onto their personal residences.
Applauding the introduction of a bill in the House of Representatives yesterday that would restrict federal agencies from pressuring organizations and their employees to waive legal protections when they are…
Relying on an unidentified senior administration official, the Chicago Tribune reports that the White House plans to hold in the nation’s heartland future military commission trials of…
Citing prosecutorial misconduct, a federal judge in Southern California has axed a stock options backdating case against two Broadcom Corp. executives.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney found that the government…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held the U.S. Department of Defense in civil contempt of court today for disobeying a prior court order that required “the appropriate agency” to…
Because he earlier accepted $2 million from the government for being mistakenly arrested in an international terrorism case and is barred by the terms of the settlement from seeking new…
Prosecutors plan to revise charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to avoid any delays that could be caused by an adverse Supreme Court ruling on honest services fraud.
Members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board make more than $500,000 a year, and the president can do little about it, conservative justices suggested in oral arguments yesterday on…
A federal judge has agreed that billionaire Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, can proceed with discovery in his effort to force the feds to pay his…
Citing a new federal law that allows the government to withhold photographs of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq reportedly being abused by their United States captors, the nation’s top court…
When President Nixon declared that Charles Manson was guilty of seven California murders, the cult leader sought to use the comment to his advantage. He showed jurors the headline “Manson…
President Obama is lagging behind his predecessor in making judicial nominations, disappointing liberals who had hoped to see a new federal judiciary quickly take shape.
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