The US Department of Justice says it will ask a federal judge to dismiss a class-action suit launched in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a cyberspace privacy group, against telecommunications giant AT&T...

The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals Friday overturned a Pittsburgh municipality ordinance requiring canvassers to register with police before going door to door. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of a local of the...

A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the US Courts said Friday that creating an inspector general for the federal judiciary to investigate possible ethical violations by federal judges "would be a serious incursion into judicial independence"...

In the latest legal assault on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , conservative business organization the Free Enterprise Fund has asked former US solicitor general and Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , former US assistant attorney general...

The UN Security Council Friday passed a wide-ranging resolution on duties to civilians in armed conflict that included a landmark affirmation of an international responsibility to protect in the face of war crimes, genocide and ethic cleansing when...

A Review of the FBI's Investigative Activities Concerning Potential Protesters at the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Political Conventions, Special Report, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, April 2006. Read the full text of the report ....

The US Army announced late Friday that it has charged Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, former head of interrogation operations at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison , with seven violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice ,...

President Bush Friday called on Sudan to resolve the conflict in its troubled Darfur region , asking the country's government to act in “full compliance with the international desire for there to be peace.” The President’s remarks...

The Miami federal judge presiding over the trial of terror suspect Jose Padilla on Friday rejected prosecutors' attempts to require Padilla’s defense attorneys to sign a "memorandum of understanding" regarding the security of secret evidence the...

The US Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General reported Friday that the FBI did not use the threat of terrorism investigations to intimidate political protesters at the 2004 Democratic and Republican national...