The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co. that fee claimants filing lawsuits under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 7-1 in United States v. Marcus that the lower court had misapplied precedent interpreting plain error in an alleged ex post facto...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in United States v. O'Brien that the question of whether a firearm is a machine gun must be proved to the...

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 ...