A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has rejected a 7-year-old ban in New Jersey on the use of local roads by large rigs travelling interstate because it...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Holmes v. South Carolina , a case in which it will decide whether state courts can preclude defendants from presenting...

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced Wednesday that one of the five NTP patents that a court found was infringed upon by Research In Motion's (RIM) , manufacturer of the BlackBerry wireless...

New Jersey is launching legal actions in federal and state court to keep a company from the United Arab Emirates from taking over US port operations in the state, Gov. Jon Corzine said...

Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District has agreed to pay $1 million in plaintiff's attorneys' fees after a federal district court found that the school district's inclusion of intelligent design theory in its high school biology curriculum was...

The government of South Korea is seriously considering abandoning capital punishment, according to officials at the country's Justice Ministry on Wednesday. Earlier this week the ministry ordered a study to determine how abolishing the death penalty -...

New Haitian president Rene Preval said Wednesday that ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has a legal right to re-enter the country. In his first news conference since his victory in the February 2...

A Rhode Island jury Wednesday found three former lead paint manufacturers responsible for creating a public nuisance that had contaminated thousands of homes and continues to poison children. The jury found Sherwin Williams, NL Industries Inc. [corporate...

EU justice and interior ministers meeting in Brussels Tuesday approved a controversial data retention directive passed by the European Parliament in December designed to track down terrorists, paedophiles, and criminal gangs and...

Trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday in El Paso, TX for Sgt. Alan J. Driver, a reservist accused of abusing prisoners at Bagram Control Point in Afghanistan . He is the...