Following news Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice would investigate the slaying of a well-known physician who performed late-term abortions in Wichita, Kan., a famous U.S. Supreme Court case…
Once consumer websites began rating everything from restaurants to dog groomers, it was only a matter of time before doctors found their care and bedside manner critiqued online.
Siding with the media and lawyers representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today gave the government a July 29 deadline.…
In what is believed to be the largest group enforcement effort ever made by Wikipedia, administrators of the free online encyclopedia has banned anyone using a computer associated with the…
A federal judge in South Carolina has granted an injunction sought by Craigslist Inc. in a declaratory judgment action against the state’s attorney general.
Saying that First Amendment protections are not absolute, a federal judge in New York has scheduled a hearing to consider whether the media’s repeated publication of photographs of an apparently…
Threatened with potential criminal prosecution over its role in allegedly promoting prostitution through Internet ads posted by third parties on its website, Craiglist Inc. has responded with a pre-emptive strike.
A group of nuns covered almost from head to toe in black-and-gray habits came to the Kane County Courthouse in suburban Chicago today to attend a criminal trial concerning a…
A suit filed by in New York federal court challenges patents granted to a company for two genes that can be tested to determine a person’s increased risk of breast…
A Boston Globe reporter who broke news of a district attorney’s “pottygate probe” won’t have to reveal to a grand jury how he obtained the information.
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