...over the Internet giant's effort to create a vast digital library. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York said he will hold a hearing Feb. 18 on the new agreement, which would give Google access to scan and print...

In this article: Revenue, Dell, Treasury Department, Acer Inc., Denny Chin, Google, Justice Department, Google Books, Old Navy, and Newspaper Association of America

...the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. November 19, 2009 The surprising similarities between Chief Justice John Roberts and his newest colleague, Sonia Sotomayor. We're surrounded by maddening words and expressions, all of them seemingly...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, John G. Roberts Jr., Paul D. Clement, Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens, Richard Burton, John Allen Muhammad, and Benjamin N. Cardozo

...of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval on Wednesday awarded seven plaintiffs $720,000, but the government could eventually be...

In this article: Stanwood Duval, Plaintiff, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, and Lower 9th Ward

...have come to epitomise a particularly cosy version of the special relationship. Condoleezza Rice shocked journalists by letting Jack Straw have her pull-out bed on a flight to Baghdad three years ago, herself sleeping on the floor. Mr...

In this article: David Miliband, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Alastair Campbell, Jack Straw, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Brains, US, and Blackburn

Last updated at 12:43 PM on 18th November 2009 Justice Secretary Jack Straw is to lose his power to veto the release of more than 400 prisoners it emerged yesterday - as he was criticised for refusing parole to Ronnie Biggs. Sir David...

In this article: Jack Straw, Parole, Ministry of Justice, and Liverpool

COLUMBUS , Ohio U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (AN'-toh-nihn skuh-LEE'-uh) has said in a speech at Ohio State University the Constitution is best treated as an original document within the context of its historical creation, not...

In this article: Antonin Scalia, Originalism, Ohio, Ohio State University, U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ronald Reagan, and US

...judges. Obama has made a nomination for the vacancy. Obama also could have a second Supreme Court nominee if Justice John Paul Stevens , 89, decides to retire after the current term. Obama , however, has been much slower than Bush in...

In this article: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, and Andre Davis

...finally released in August on compassionate grounds after contracting pneumonia. Photograph: Rex Features The justice secretary, Jack Straw , is to lose his last remaining powers to block the release of prisoners such as Ronnie Biggs , it...

In this article: Ronnie Biggs, Jack Straw, Courts Service, Parole, National Offender Management Service, and Ministry of Justice

Biggs was seriously ill in hospital before his release Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been accused of allowing public opinion to cloud his judgement over the release of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs. Chairman of the Parole Board Sir...

In this article: Jack Straw, Ministry of Justice, London, Parole, and Buckinghamshire

Jack Straw , the Justice Secretary, is to give up all responsibility for the release of prisoners in the wake of the Ronnie Biggs row. Justice Secretary Jack Straw Photo : PA A clause that ends the power of a Secretary of State to veto...

In this article: Jack Straw, Ronnie Biggs, Parole, and Ministry of Justice

Justice Secretary Jack Straw was accused today of allowing politics to cloud his judgment over the release of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs. Sir David Latham , the chairman of the Parole Board, said there was no "rational reason" not to...

In this article: Jack Straw, Ministry of Justice, National Offender Management Service, and Prison Service

...decision at the nation's highest court. It's not that other justices don't have their own particular glamour. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia - both opera lovers - recently had roles in the opening performance of " Ariadne auf Naxos "...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, Sandra Day O'Connor, YouTube, Thurgood Marshall, C-SPAN, Arturo O'Farrill, and Annie Liebowitz

Justice Secretary Jack Straw today urged magistrates to be "more aggressive" about enforcing the payment of fines. He called on JPs in England and Wales to follow the example of courts in Surrey and Sussex which demand that offenders pay...

In this article: Jack Straw, Defendant, Ministry of Justice, England, Wales, and Birmingham

...however, he was able to gain and keep the majority, helped by the youthful new chief justice, John Roberts , and the newest associate justice, Samuel Alito. The case, requiring interpretation of the Second Amendment's text and history, was...

In this article: Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court, Federalist Society, Originalism, Leonard Leo, USA Today, Samuel Alito, Strom Thurmond, and George W. Bush

...non-murderers. "Death is different," Justice Roberts said at one point. Liberal justices, including Stephen Breyer , Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor , expressed concerns about juveniles receiving life without parole for crimes that...

In this article: Parole, Supreme Court, Florida, John G. Roberts Jr., Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

...on serious violent crimes by juveniles. The court 's conservative bloc - Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito - seemed reluctant to embrace an outright ban on such sentences, suggesting instead judges...

In this article: Parole, Supreme Court, Florida, John G. Roberts, Bryan Stevenson, Samuel Alito, Defendant, and Anthony Kennedy

... Rakoff said at the hearing. "It is the court 's intention to move this case forward. " Judge Rakoff took the industry by surprise in September when he issued a scathing ruling on one of the watershed moments of the financial crisis: the...

In this article: Jed S. Rakoff, Defendant, Galleon Group, Bank of America, Insider trading, Allegation, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

...of Intel 's venture capital arm, International Business Machines and McKinsey & Co management consultants. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff turned down a joint proposal by the SEC and some of the defense lawyers to put the civil case on hold...

In this article: Defendant, Galleon Group, Jed Rakoff, Insider trading, John Dowd, Intel Corp, and NEW YORK