What 'packing the court' means

Attorney Seth Waxman told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that Rajat Gupta never got a fair chance to prove his innocence because his daughter was not permitted to testify about how angry her father was at a billionaire hedge fund ...

A second circuit court ruling invalidating one of President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board could provide additional ammunition to anyone inclined to challenge the validity of his choice to lead the Consumer ...

Google and the Authors Guild resumed an eight-year battle on Tuesday morning before the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where judges pressed both sides to provide a straight-up answer as to whether Googles decision to scan millions of books amounted to ...

In Galloway, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the use of public prayer before town meetings in the town of Greece Klukowski, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at FRC, authored the amicus brief on behalf of the ...

Motorola has put the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on notice that it plans to appeal the ITC's dismissal of a case Motorola had filed against Apple. This is the second time that the wholly owned Google subsidiary is challenging the ...

Contact On May 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed with the CFPB in holding that a single-story unit in a multi-story condominium is a lot, as that term is used in the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act. Berlin v.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a judgment from the US District Court for the Southern District in Great Lakes Business Trust v. M/T ORANGE SUN, 12-cv-1270, wherein the District Court awarded the Plaintiff, Great Lakes Business ...

Senators voted 97-0 Thursday to confirm Srikanth Srinivasan to a judgeship on the vitally important U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after Republicans relented and allowed the vote to go forward this week. But beneath the ...

A divided U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the two officers didn't use excessive force in a 2009 incident in which a suspect was fatally shot. SAN FRANCISCO Two Anaheim police officers said they pulled over a van at 2 a.m. after noticing ...