The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in American Needle v. NFL that the National Football League (NFL) and its member teams are not...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Lewis v. City of Chicago that a plaintiff who fails to file a timely challenge against the adoption...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in five cases. In Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America , the court granted a limited petition to decide whether...

Australian Defense Minister John Faulkner and Attorney General Robert McClelland announced Monday that the government will establish a new military court as part of a restructuring of the federal court system. The Military Court of...

The FBI on Monday released preliminary annual crime statistics for 2009, which indicated a drop in violent crime for the third year in a row. The FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report disclosed that violent crime...

BP is balking at an US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) order issued Thursday directing it to find an alternative dispersant to address the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in...

A spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti announced Saturday that the mission has launched an investigation into the shootings of dozens of prisoners in a jail riot following the January 12 earthquake ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has decided not to file charges against former American International Group (AIG) executive Joseph Cassano, according to prosecutors from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on...

US President Barack Obama Friday nominated former Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer James Cole for the position of Deputy Attorney General, the second highest position at the DOJ. Cole previously spent 13 years at the...

US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday establishing an independent commission to investigate offshore drilling and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . The National...