One way to resolve the current mortgage meltdown is for lenders to work with borrowers and modify their home loans to make them affordable. This can be in the lender’s…
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that employees complaining of age discrimination at Federal Express satisfied legal requirements for filing a lawsuit even though they failed to file the…
The U.S. Supreme Court considered yesterday whether hiding money under the floorboards of a car headed for the Mexican border was a violation of the money laundering law.
In just one week’s time, Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig has gone from a possible congressional candidate to a law professor with a mission to reform pork-barrel spending and…
Sweeping new DNA searching techniques are leading authorities in the United Kingdom to violent criminals who have evaded detection for years. Among them: a man who raped a 36-year-old woman…
In 2005, Sen. John McCain helped pave the way for confirmation of two U.S. Supreme Court justices and other conservative judges by helping stop a vote on whether to ban…
GOP candidate John McCain says if he is elected president, he won’t use signing statements—at all—to voice disagreement with parts of legislation he dislikes.
A second Department of Justice investigation, in addition to the one launched last month by Attorney General Michael Mukasey, has been under way for “several years” concerning the propriety of…
Several proposals are being touted that would help troubled borrowers and the lenders that gave them loans for their homes, often worth less now than the outstanding loan balance.
A pending congressional proposal to allow bankruptcy judges to reduce borrowers’ outstanding home mortgages is running into some strong opposition from lenders.
A failure to enforce fair lending laws, as banks targeted racial minorities for expensive subprime mortgages, is a major factor in the country’s current financial crisis, according to Jesse Jackson.
A national database of mentally ill persons prohibited from buying guns reportedly contains only a small fraction of those who are eligible to be listed.
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