While the issue of same-sex marriage is widely expected to work its way to the U.S. Supreme Court over the next few years, another thorny legal question raised in the case has already landed before the high court: cameras in federal courtrooms. The U.S. Supreme Court could ...

A federal appellate judge has ordered the preservation of all evidence that allegedly shows 104 Major League Baseball players tested positive for steroids in 2003. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled that federal agents wrongly seized the material from drug ...

A high-ranking federal judge who made sexually explicit material available on the Internet was cleared of judicial misconduct with an admonishment Thursday by fellow judges. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California, was "careless" and "judicially imprudent" in ...

Children in California who want to buy or rent a violent video game without a parent's permission could have that right taken away by a federal appeals panel, which heard arguments on the case Wednesday. A state law passed in 2005 that tries to limit ...