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The Supreme Court already has heard major cases on gay and First Amendment rights and police searches, and the justices are likely to add a momentous case about presidential power to their list early in the new year. With President Trump's travel ban policy once again before the high court, legal analysts predict the justices will agree to speed the case onto their docket in 2018, setting up a ruling by the end of June.
California's teachers unions are going to court again. This time, it's the California Teachers Association versus three teachers who first brought suit in 2015.
The False Claims Act authorizes civil penalties between $10,781 to $21,563 per false claim, as well as three times the amount of damages which the government sustains . The Eighth Amendment provides that "[e]xcessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed , nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
A federal appeals court has denied an Arizona death row inmate's appeal convicted of killing his wife, overturning a lower court's ruling that the man received ineffective assistance of counsel. A ruling Thursday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Michael Apelt's defense was deficient but that Arizona courts' findings that the deficiency didn't harm Apelt's defense weren't unreasonable.
A panel of three judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency needs to modernize regulations governing the use of lead paint quickly after new information on its dangers was revealed. Before the decision, the EPA told the panel that updated regulations taking into account the new data would be developed within six years.
Lawyers with the Department of Justice have asked a federal judge to change his order that partially lifted a Trump administration refugee ban. Just before Christmas, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle imposed a nationwide injunction that blocks restrictions on reuniting refugee families and partially lifted a ban on refugees from 11 mostly Muslim countries.
A group of Facebook users plan to ask a federal appellate court to revive a lawsuit accusing the company of violating their privacy by tracking them throughout the Web via the "Like" button. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, Calif.
A federal appeals court has dismissed an effort to allow the sterilization of a herd of wild horses in Idaho. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month granted a request by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to stop the effort.
George Washington and his troops will be making their annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. If you live in the Northeast or Midwest, you're not dreaming: It's probably going to be a white Christmas.
George Washington and his troops will be making their annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. George Washington and his troops will be making their annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The pair helped create an internet browser extension, "Open Mind," with... . In this Dec. 13, 2017, photo graduate students Michael Lopez-Brau, back, and Stefan Uddenberg show off the internet browser extension "Open Mind," at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
Hundreds of volunteers have been on the phones at an Air Force base in Colorado, answering questions from eager kids who want to know where Santa is on his storybook Christmas Eve travels. Hundreds of volunteers have been on the phones at an Air Force base in Colorado, answering questions from eager kids who want to know where Santa is on his storybook Christmas Eve travels.
A presidential adviser says Donald Trump has full confidence in his new FBI director despite a series of attacks on the impartiality of his soon-to-retire deputy. A presidential adviser says Donald Trump has full confidence in his new FBI director despite a series of attacks on the impartiality of his soon-to-retire deputy.
A presidential adviser says Donald Trump has full confidence in his new FBI director despite a series of attacks on the impartiality of his soon-to-retire deputy. Kansas City's Secret Santa is at it again, this time focusing his annual good cheer on Kansas' capital city.
The fire which still raging for hours now have trapped an undetermined number of people, fire officials said. . In this photo provided by Special Assistant to the President Christopher Bong Go, a fire rages at shopping mall in Davao city, the hometown of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, on... .
The top leadership of the Miss America Organization has resigned, sweeping out officials implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives. The top leadership of the Miss America Organization has resigned, sweeping out officials implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives.
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2013 file photo, Miss New York Mallory Hytes Hagan reacts as she is crowned Miss America 2013 in Las Vegas. Some former Miss Americas shamed in emails from the pageant's CEO are calling on him and... The worst appears to be over for a massive wildfire that plagued a wide swath of the Southern California coast for 2 A1 2 weeks.
President Donald Trump 's latest travel ban executive order is unlawful, a panel of judges in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The appellate court panel's decision roughly aligned with a previous District Court injunction, BuzzFeed reported .
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed its ruling pending Supreme Court review-just as has been done twice before. For one of President Donald Trump's most controversial decrees, trouble has indeed come in threes.
A prominent U.S. appeals court judge announced his retirement Monday days after women alleged he subjected them to inappropriate sexual conduct or comments. Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a statement that a battle over the accusations would not be good for the judiciary.