The Justice Department has scored a narrow but important win for state secrets powers in a federal appeals court ruling Wednesday blocking a lawsuit stemming from the so-called extraordinary rendition of terrorism suspects.
By the slend...
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A federal judge has refused the Obama administration's request for a stay of an order entered last month prohibiting all federally funded research using stem cells from human embryos.
In a ruling Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamb...
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A dizzying swirl of developments today in a lawsuit former Washington Times Editorial Page Editor Richard Miniter thought he had resolved in a settlement with his ex-employer last week.
Crusading attorney Larry Klayman, who was one of the lawyers repr...
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A Nevada newspaper's highly unusual copyright lawsuit against Senate candidate Sharron Angle is the the latest salvo in what is shaping up to be a highly litigious 2010 campaign.
On Friday, a company acting on behalf of the Las Vegas Review-Journal fi...
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Opponents of stem cell research that uses discarded or unwanted embryos have failed in their bid to, in essence, hand pick the judges who will hear an appeal of a lower court's groundbreaking ruling barring federal funding of all embryonic stem cell re...
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Many of the U.S. troops exiting Iraq as the U.S. draws down its forces there are delighted to be headed home, but that sentiment isn't shared completely by the general who served until Wednesday as the top U.S. commander there.
Gen. Ray Odierno said i...
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Most of the press coverage of immigration at the federal level is devoted to the big enchilada — the question of whether a massive overhaul of the immigration laws will pass Congress and the related question of whether President Ba...
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One of the nation’s most prominent Muslim organizations, the North American Islamic Trust, is set to face off with the U.S. government in a federal appeals court Monday.The reputation of the group, known as NAIT, may well hang in the balance...
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The Washington Post reports this morning that the Obama Administration indicated in a recent court filing that it has no plans to move forward "in the near future" with a military commission trial of the suspected organizer of the USS Co...
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Bloomberg News has won another battle in its effort to disclose details about emergency assistance the Federal Reserve Bank doled out in 2008 as part of the bailout to help the banking system survive the financial downturn.
Earlier this month, the ful...
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