An American who says he was tortured into confessing to terrorism charges in the United Arab Emirates has lost his effort to get a U.S. judge involved in his trial. U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled Tuesday that he doesn't have the authority to ...

A half-million American Indian plaintiffs are appealing a federal judge's recent decision to award them much less than they wanted in a long-running trust case. U.S. District Judge James Robertson said in an Aug. 7 decision that the plaintiffs are entitled to $455 million, a fraction of the $47 ...

When the next generations of $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills roll off the presses, there should be some way for blind people to tell them apart, a federal judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge James Robertson said he would not allow ...

Today marks the beginning of the first trial in a military commission at Guantánamo Bay, more than six and half years after they were originally established. At first glance that might seem like a positive step in a long process noteworthy largely for its lack of anything resembling a judicial process. Yet a significant measure of doubt ...