After a protracted partisan struggle, the Senate voted 59-39 on Thursday to confirm Judge David F. Hamilton to a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The judge 's nomination had been waylaid since last March, with Republican...

In this article: Barack Obama, Detainee, Jeff Sessions, and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

...s veto of a $220 million flood control project that dates back decades. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners sued the EPA in August in U.S. District Court in Greenville. The levee board, made up of representatives from several...

In this article: EPA, Mississippi River, Clean Water Act, Mississippi, National Wildlife Federation, and Environmental Protection Agency

...an end. A Manhattan federal judge revoked Stewart's $500,000 bond late yesterday, but gave her until 5 p.m. today to seek a stay from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals , which Tuesday ordered her to begin serving a 28-month sentence for...

In this article: Lynne Stewart, John Koeltl, Roman Polanski, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Manhattan, and US

...News has been postponed while creditors appeal a key ruling. The auction of Philadelphia Newspapers LLC was put on hold Tuesday when the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear the creditors' appeal on Dec. 15. The court will...

In this article: Bankruptcy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals

...block in their own neighborhood sued with the help of the nonprofit Partnership for Civil Justice. They initially lost, but then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled this summer that the checkpoints, known as the...

In this article: Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, Supreme Court, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Obama chooses Hispanic woman for Supreme Court President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday. She would be...

In this article: Mark Sanford, United States, Supreme Court, Texas, The Hague, Missouri, and Stephen Rapp

...later transferred to Stephen M. Cohen. Following lengthy court proceedings, Kremen regained control of the name. In the process, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that domain name owners hold property rights. The...

In this article: Gary Kremen, AOL, New Jersey, Allegation, File sharing, Peer-to-peer, Match.com, Stephen M. Cohen, and EBay

...top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Court lifts ban on Boeing work on KC-135 tankers WASHINGTON ( Reuters ) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday lifted a lower court's injunction against a $1.2 billion Air Force maintenance...

In this article: Boeing Co, Kc-135, Thomson Reuters, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Injunction, Small business, and NYSE

...against a $1.2 billion Air Force maintenance contract with Boeing Co that was protested by Alabama Aircraft Industries. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a federal claims court ruling in favor of Alabama...

In this article: Boeing Co, Kc-135, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Injunction, Government Accountability Office, and U.S. appeals court

...that overturned Boeing Co.'s $1.1 billion contract for maintenance of an Air Force refueling tanker jet. The decision Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reinstates Chicago -based Boeing 's 10-year contract for work...

In this article: Boeing Co, Kc-135 Stratotanker, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Chicago, and Washington

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday seeking to continue a suit brought by local towns challenging 2006 changes to flight paths over Fairfield County that opponents and local leaders...

In this article: Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Aviation Administration, Fairfield County, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, New Canaan, Westport, and Darien

Some of alleged swindler Allen Stanford's investors, including baseball star Johnny Damon , will see their funds returned after a U.S. appeals court ruled the receiver in the fraud case may not sue them. Ralph Janvey, the receiver in...

In this article: Stanford, Allen Stanford, J.D. Drew, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Major League Baseball, Greg Maddux, Johnny Damon, Boston Red Sox, and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

...the weeks before civil fraud charges were filed, unfairly cashed out and were paid with money stolen from other investors. But the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said in a ruling late on Friday that Janvey had no right to sue...

In this article: Stanford, Allen Stanford, J.D. Drew, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Major League Baseball, Greg Maddux, Johnny Damon, Boston Red Sox, and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

By Joan Biskupic , USA TODAY WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday spurned without comment an appeal by Native Americans challenging the Washington Redskins ' team name as perpetuating offensive stereotypes. "For almost 40 years the...

In this article: Washington Redskins, Trademark, Supreme Court, USA Today, Suzan Harjo, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Washington

...of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. The decision was written by then-judgeSamuel A. Alito Jr., who now sits on the Supreme Court. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that was merely a "suggestion" of how to interpret the...

In this article: Supreme Court, Washington Redskins, Trademark, Boston Braves, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

...probation and $12.25 million of penalties in a plea bargain, but a U.S. district court judge rejected the terms as too lenient. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in September refused to reinstate the plea bargain. Samueli on November...

In this article: Henry Samueli, National Hockey League, Anaheim Ducks, Broadcom Corp., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, NEW YORK, U.S., and Reuters

...the United States if the government does not arrange for a safe country of asylum. The judge "eviscerated the clear directives of the Supreme Court " that detainees at Guantanamo Bay have a right to challenge their detention in civilian...

In this article: Detainee, Guantanamo Bay, Reggie Walton, Tajikistan, Washington, Afghanistan, Supreme Court, The Miami Herald, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

The Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide whether two people can do the work of five when it comes to resolving labor-management disputes in the workplace. The National Labor Relations Board , which for decades has had the...

In this article: National Labor Relations Board, Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, John Paul Stevens, and George W. Bush