The Supreme Court tentatively agreed Tuesday to accept an appeal from a group of native Chinese Muslims, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, who had asked to be released into the...
The legal problem cited by the judge when he threw out the indictments against Blackwater guards was obvious to American government lawyers within days of the shooting. “It is regrettable that the...
The City of New York asked a federal judge on Friday to reconsider the appointment of Mr. morgenthau to oversee the city's efforts to increase the number of black and Hispanic firefighters in...
The trial of a former Queens student accused of sending equipment to al-Qaida fighters begins Wednesday in Lower Manhattan. Syed Hashmi, 30, faces four counts of providing support to the terrorist...
The City of New York said Friday that it would not hire a new class of firefighters using proposals laid out by a federal judge, who had ruled that the test used to screen Fire Department applicants...
Plaintiffs will have a harder time suing oil companies and other multinational groups over human-rights abuses overseas following a federal court ruling on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that New York City could be on the hook for as much as $128.7 million in a lawsuit alleging it used a racially discriminatory test to evaluate candidates...
During oral arguments in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ lawsuit against the government seeking public access to basic court documents in Bradley Manning’s court-martial trial,...
