PHOENIX - (AP) Mexico on Tuesday asked a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional, arguing that the country's own interests and its citizens' rights are at stake. Lawyers for Mexico on Tuesday... Read More
SALT LAKE CITY - (AP) The Utah Supreme Court said Tuesday that state election officials must accept online petition signatures to qualify individuals for the ballot. "A signature under (Utah law) does not require a signor to physically handle... Read More
OMAHA, Neb. - (AP) Union Pacific Corp. asked a federal judge Wednesday to order the Environmental Protection Agency to stop destroying records the railroad requested about lead contamination in Omaha. The EPA and Union Pacific have been trying for... Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. - (AP) The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that Philip Morris does not have to pay $100 million in punitive damages to the family of a smoker who sued the tobacco giant over its low-tar cigarettes. The case, however, is going to another... Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - (AP) A federal judge handed Google Inc. a major victory Wednesday by rebuffing media company Viacom Inc.'s attempt to collect more than $1 billion in damages for the alleged copyright abuses of Google's popular YouTube service... Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. - (AP) New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has hired outside lawyers in an effort to become the lead plaintiff in a federal class-action lawsuit by investors against BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. DiNapoli, as trustee of the state's... Read More
SANTA ANA, Calif. - (AP) A federal judge overseeing sprawling litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. indicated Wednesday he will not allow plaintiffs' attorneys to call expert witnesses who work for the carmaker's competitors. In tentative opinions... Read More
NEW ORLEANS - (AP) A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others... Read More
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - (AP) The Vatican is asking a federal judge to reject an attempt to question Pope Benedict XVI under oath in a Kentucky sex abuse lawsuit on the grounds that there has been no evidence of a link to church officials in Rome. The arguments... Read More
NEW YORK - (Mealey's) U.S. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York on June 23, 2010 approved a $716 million settlement for first responders and workers who cleared the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center towers after... Read More
WASHINGTON - (AP) The Supreme Court has put new limits on foreign investors who want to use U.S. securities law and U.S. courts to sue foreign firms for fraud. The court said Thursday that foreigners may not sue American or foreign firms for misconduct... Read More
BERKELEY, Calif. - (AP) A judge has ruled that the University of California police illegally searched the camera of a photojournalist covering a protest outside the chancellor's campus home, attorneys said Monday. Alameda County Superior Judge... Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. - (AP) New York's top court has upheld a state redevelopment agency's use of eminent domain so Columbia University can expand its Ivy League campus over 17 acres in Manhattan's West Harlem neighborhood. The Court of Appeals... Read More
WASHINGTON - (AP) Are the toys in your child's Happy Meal making him fat? The Center for Science in the Public Interest says they are. The Washington-based consumer advocacy group threatened to file a lawsuit against McDonald's Tuesday, charging... Read More
FORT WORTH, Texas - (AP) A federal bankruptcy judge ordered the Texas Rangers and their angry creditors into mediation Thursday, pushing any resolution of the long-delayed sale dangerously close to a deadline that could be crucial to the team's playoff... Read More