Brandon Mayfield , a Portland lawyer and Muslim convert, returns to a federal courthouse in Portland Friday for a pretrial hearing in his civil lawsuit against the US government. A little over a year ago...

A legal professional speaking on condition of anonymity has told the Associated Press that chief presidential adviser Karl Rove testified to a grand jury that he learned the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame from...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that that US meatpackers can resume Canadian cattle importation, ending a two-year ban put in place after Canada discovered its...

BBC News is reporting that chemistry student Magdi al-Nashar has been arrested in Cairo in connection with the London bombings. BBC News has more.11:36 AM ET - Magdi al-Nashar has denied any role in the London attacks during interrogations...

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 [ruling chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing, via the Real...

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, July 14, 2005 [ruling upholding a lower court decision that Microsoft Corp. was liable for infringing on an AT&T Corp. patent for converting speech into computer code in copies of Windows operating...

AP is reporting that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist is spurning rumors of his retirement after admission to the hospital this week for a fever, saying he will serve as long as his health allows...

US Senators said Thursday at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing that Congress should enact legislation to define the legal status of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, while the Pentagon called such a plan too...

Investigations into FBI Allegations of Detainee Abuse, US Department of Defense , released July 14, 2005 . Read the full text of the...

Four leading women in the US Senate Thursday asked Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to reconsider her resignation if Justice William Rehnquist makes the decision to retire. The request from Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Barbara Boxer...