The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Friday withdrew a three-year-old lawsuit challenging Section 215 of the Patriot Act . Congressional amendment of the Act in March 2006 was...
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The Intermediate People's Court in the city of Shaoyang has released a Chinese journalist, Yang Xiaoqing, on bail after he served only seven months of his one-year sentence , Yang's wife said Saturday. The court...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) , does not have authority to regulate how certain games, including blackjack and slot machines, are run...
President George W. Bush signed two bills into law Friday separately imposing sanctions on North Korea and Sudan in light of the former's nuclear test earlier this week and reports of continued atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region...
A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury issued a $78.47 million verdict against retailer Wal-Mart Friday, awarding damages to plaintiffs on behalf of current and former Pennsylvania employees for work during rest...
Defense attorneys for Jose Padilla , now formally accused of being an al Qaeda agent, moved this week to dismiss the charges against him based on allegedly illegal actions by the prosecution. Padilla's attorneys accuse the US...
Ex-Enron vice-president Paula Rieker was sentenced Friday to 2 years probation for insider trading, avoiding up to ten years' imprisonment. Judge Melinda Harmon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas...
