... for still more questioning on Thursday. The appeals court judge, 55, avoided weighing in on any major issue that could ... case that squarely confronts the issue. As an appeals court judge she dismissed a challenge to the so-called global gag ...

... conducted eight days earlier. NASCAR later said he tested positive for methamphetamine. He sued, and U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen issued an injunction July 1 that allowed Mayfield to return to competition. Mullen based his decision ...

... hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington. McDaniel had never met Sotomayor but sided with the federal court judge in a case she had ruled on last year regarding reverse discrimination claims of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn ...

... have approved a plan to assign only civil cases to Proctor next year, a move that has to be approved by the Supreme Court. Judges, however, rejected a move this week to recommend to the court that the plan take effect immediately. In its four ...

... intimate footage showing John Lennon and his family in London in 1970, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel last week refused to reinstate a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by a Lawrence, Mass.-based ...

... Jackson control of 2,000 items from Neverland. Paul Gordon Hoffman, an attorney for the executors, told Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff his clients are the proper people to take over Jackson's financial affairs. He called Katherine ...

... be under consideration by Obama are U.S. Appeals Court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Wood, Solicitor General Elena ... court is composed entirely of former federal appeals court judges. Such a route provides a base of decisions which could ...

... nominee, Sonia Sotomayor was an umpire between baseball players and team owners. Her decision as a U.S. District Court Judge to issue an injunction against owners on March 31, 1995, ended a 7 1/2-month strike that had wiped out the World ...

... follow its drug-testing policies and left the driver with no way to prove his innocence. Mecklenburg County Superior Court Judge Forrest Bridges set a hearing for Wednesday, saying an immediate ruling was not necessary because Mayfield Motorsports ...

... other judges saying the Supreme Court's case law is narrow at this point and that she and her other district appeals court judges were not going to be the ones to presume to broaden it. That brings us to what happened Tuesday. Yet another gun ...