A federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled that closed-door arbitrations by Delaware chancery court judges violate a First Amendment right of access to trials.
The First Amendment doesn’t bar the prosecution of a former Army sergeant who sang and rapped a threat to a judge on YouTube, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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…
The Kentucky Bar Association has been ordered by a federal judge to pay a little over $190,000 in attorney’s fees to a lawyer whose free speech rights were chilled.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that pornography publisher Hustler Inc didn’t have the right to publish a wet T-shirt contest photo featuring an Ohio TV news…
The Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to rehear en banc a case involving a law that requires anti-abortion pregnancy centers to post ads encouraging clients…
Saying they’ve been getting complaints from fans about police harassment, the Detroit hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse has hired counsel to pursue a possible lawsuit against the FBI for classifying…
Jury selection has begun in the Detroit federal civil trial of a former assistant Michigan attorney general who lost his job because of his treatment of a gay man who…
As a deadline looms for shaving his beard, as required by Army rules, the suspect in a fatal mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 showed up again unshaven at…
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A judge has given a thumbs-down to the Facebook “like,” leaving some rather puzzled. Photo by AP Photo/Paul Sakuma.
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