The state of Connecticut is being sued by a group of prominent lawyers over its plan to transfer $2 million from the Client Security Fund to resolve a budget shortfall,…
In the wake of unprecedented emergency federal spending to deal with the nation’s dismal economy, the Obama administration is now asking financial experts to help figure out how to increase…
Working undercover to investigate whether the federal watchdog charged with enforcing U.S. labor laws is doing its job, agents of the Governmental Accountability Office found that nine of 10 complaints…
The nation’s new solicitor general may be so eager to prove herself that she will argue an important voting rights case before the Supreme Court at the end of the…
An embattled U.S. senator from Illinois who is fighting efforts to force him from office, following allegations that he misrepresented his dealings with now-impeached ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, expects that his…
A senior member of Congress who was elected in California has reportedly saved $3,853 in 2007 and 2008 taxes by claiming a home in Maryland as his principal residence. And…
Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe says a high tax on bonuses paid to executives by companies receiving bailout funds could likely be structured in a way to avoid constitutional problems.
In the wake of widespread anger over news of big bonuses paid to executives at American International Group in the midst of a taxpayer-funded bailout that could hit $185 billion,…
There’s growing public outrage over news that some $165 million of a taxpayer-funded $180 billion bailout of American International Group is being paid out in bonuses to those who helped…
As one member called a Louisiana doctor who at one point was accused of criminally euthanizing patients in her care a hero, a panel today recommended that the state should…
In the first revision since 1992 of the conduct code for federal judges, the Judicial Conference of the United States today enacted a streamlined set of rules for the nation’s…
Another federal appeals court has been heard from in an ongoing controversy over the constitutionality of crime registries, weighing in on the side of the proponents.
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