Matthew Lee v. Ruth Ann Minner, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, August 16, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion ....
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday sided with several states and the federal government when it found that energy company Cinergy Corp. should have gone through a federal...
US Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the confessions of three Rwandan rebels charged with killing two American tourists in Uganda were achieved...
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry is liable for civil racketeering charges filed against the industry by the DOJ in 1999. Federal prosecutors filed suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt...
A New Jersey state court on Thursday vacated a November verdict finding Merck not liable for the heart attack of Frederick Humeston, who suffered a heart attack in September 2001 after taking Merck's painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx...
The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional a state voting law that lists the election candidate of the winning party in the preceding state general election first on the ballot....
President Bush on Thursday signed into law the Pension Protection Act of 2006 , which he called the "most sweeping reform" of US pension law since the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...
A federal jury sitting in Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday found David Passaro guilty of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan . The jury convicted Passaro on three misdemeanor counts of simple assault and...
Delaware must make their public documents available to residents of other states, according to a ruling handed down Wednesday by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Delaware's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as...
ACLU v. NSA, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, August 17, 2006 [rejecting the government's assertion of the state secrets privilege, holding that the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional and...