Justice Department weighs in on NY stop-frisk case
The U.S. Justice Department has treaded carefully into the debate over the New York Police Department's stop, question and frisk policy, telling a ...
NY judge: Fed plan for morning-after pill sales OK
President Barack Obama's administration can go forward with its new plan to make the morning-after pill available to buyers of any age without ...
'Pink slime' lawsuit heads back to state court
A federal judge on Wednesday moved a South Dakota beef processing company's defamation lawsuit against ABC News back to state court. Beef Products Inc
House panel backs bill to ban later-term abortions
The House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would ban almost all ...
Ariel Castro pleads not guilty in Ohio kidnap case
A man accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of rape and kidnapping charges, ...
Judge: Supreme Court sign ban unconstitutional
In a case that could end with the Supreme Court deciding how much free speech to allow on its own doorstep, a federal judge has thrown out a law ...
Challenges to phone records face legal obstacles
The government's massive collection of Americans' phone records is drawing protests and lawsuits from civil liberties groups, but major legal ...
Court: Texas inmate's decades-old sentence invalid
The life sentence given to a Texas man who has remained in prison for 33 years since being pulled off of death row isn't valid, Texas' highest ...
Lawsuits over government surveillance languish
Before there was Edward Snowden and the leak of explosive documents showing widespread government surveillance, there was Mark Klein — a ...
UK top court rules against oil tycoon in divorce
Britain's top court on Wednesday handed an oil tycoon a costly setback in a divorce case, ruling he must give his ex-wife assets held by companies he ...
OTC morning-after pill sales coming - but not yet
Don't look for the morning-after pill to move next to the condoms on drugstore shelves right away — but after a decade-plus fight, it appears it ...
Calif. readies for possible return of gay marriage
Planning a party for thousands of people would be a challenge under the best of circumstances. Now imagine trying to pull off such a gathering without ...
Taliban bomber in Kabul kills 17 at Supreme Court
A Taliban suicide bomber struck outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday, killing 17 people in the deadliest attack in Kabul in over a year and ...
German court weighs legality of ECB crisis measure
Top European financial officials testified Tuesday for and against a European Central Bank program that has been instrumental in calming the euro debt ...
Charges reinstated against alleged Somali pirate
A federal appeals court has reinstated two charges against an alleged Somali pirate that had been dismissed by a lower court judge. Last year, U.S.
Lung transplant vote for children seeks balance
Faced with a federal judge's order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national review board ...
US transplant network resists lung rule changes
The national organization that manages organ transplants on Monday resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on ...
Court: Judges can't use new guidelines on old case
The Supreme Court says judges can't use newer sentencing guidelines on an old case. The justices ruled 5-4 for Marvin Peugh, who was convicted of five ...
High court ends torture suit against Rumsfeld
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from two American whistleblowers who claim U.S. forces tortured them in Iraq and who want to sue former ...
State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those ...
Denials in surveillance program require decoding
Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies ...
Sotomayor gets another $1.9 million for memoir
Being a Supreme Court justice has not only been good for Sonia Sotomayor's legal career, it's also helped her bank account. The justice reported ...
Appeals court says USTR can withhold document
An appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Trade Representative can withhold a classified position paper prepared during free-trade negotiations, ...
2 get death in Pakistan case tainted by class
Two young men received death sentences Friday over a fatal shooting that exposed class divisions in Pakistan and led to an unusual social media ...
Judge's ruling challenges US transplant system
It's a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation's transplant system, a federal judge ...
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