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June 21, 2007 · The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that high school athletic associations may limit the kind of recruiting of student athletes that their member schools can do. It also ruled that a federal sentence within the official sentencing guidelines may be presumed to be reasonable by an appeals court.
He tells a House panel that he never intended to mislead Congress about federal prosecutor firings.
The investiation into steroid use in pro baseball is being run by former Sen. George Mitchell.
June 21, 2007 · Last week, James Seale was found guilty of federal kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore. That conviction was due in part to the work of Jim Ingram, a retired FBI agent in Mississippi.
June 21, 2007 · The Senate Judiciary Committee authorizes subpoenas for documents describing the legal rationale behind the president's domestic wiretapping program. The spying program has been under scrutiny since a former Justice official described White House efforts to override the Justice Department's assessment that the program was illegal.
June 21, 2007 · The U.S. Supreme Court imposed a strict standard that investors must meet to keep alive their lawsuits alleging securities fraud. In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said that courts must weigh possible innocent explanations for defendants' conduct at the very start of a securities fraud case. Doing so can lead to early dismissal of investors' lawsuits.
June 20, 2007 · A Government Accountability Office report released this week concluded that federal agencies arbitrarily implemented laws under the influence of President Bush's signing statements.
June 20, 2007 · Author Kevin Davis discusses his new book, Defending the Damned. Davis shadowed Chicago's elite murder task force, the public defenders who represent accused rapists and serial killers who have the deck — and often the evidence — stacked against them. Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
June 20, 2007 · John Rizzo, up for the top legal job at the CIA, dodged questions during 90 minutes of questioning by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Senators tried to press him on some of the CIA's more controversial operations since Sept. 11, 2001. Rizzo has served as the CIA's acting general counsel for the past three years.
June 19, 2007 · Jurors in Chicago heard the closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of Conrad Black, former CEO of Hollinger International. At its height, Hollinger was the world's third-largest media company. Black's three month-long trial has centered on allegations that he skimmed more than $60 million from company shareholders.
June 19, 2007 · Civil liberties groups are celebrating a federal appeals court ruling to make stored e-mails more private than they used to be. The federal government must have a warrant before it can search through stored e-mails, the court said.
June 19, 2007 · Roland Arnall, the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands and the founder of mortgage lender Ameriquest, may soon get pulled into a lawsuit over predatory lending. Ameriquest customers say the company steered them into predatory loans — and many want Arnall, a billionaire, held personally liable.
June 19, 2007 · Jury selection is expected to begin in the federal racketeering and conspiracy trial of five reputed Chicago area organized crime figures, including Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo, who is 78. The crimes they are charged with date to 1970s and involve 18 previously unsolved mob-related murders.
June 18, 2007 · Two Yale Law School students have filed a lawsuit over anonymous online postings which they say harmed their reputations and may have cost them job opportunities. The people running the Web site refuse to remove the postings, citing free speech.
June 16, 2007 · The prosecutor who pursued the misguided rape case will lose his North Carolina law license. Mike Nifong broke several rules of professional conduct while pprosecuting three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, a disciplinary committee ruled Saturday.
