Minnesota Lawyer

A federal judge halted major fee increases for citizenship and other immigration benefits three days before they were to take effect, saying the last two chiefs of the Homeland Security Department were likely appointed illegally.

The Wisconsin case is one of several lawsuits across the country, many in battleground states, that seek to purge voters from registration rolls.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would have to be “almost dying” to get out of arguably the most notorious prison in the United States if convicted of espionage charges and sent there, a court at London’s Old Bailey heard Tuesday.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, handing Democrats a victory in their fight to deliver the key battleground state for Joe Biden in November.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, laid to rest beside her husband and near some of her former colleagues on the court.

Statistical analysis shows that many Supreme Court nomination battles since the early days of this country have been political — and often depended on whether the president’s party also had control of the U.S. Senate.

As hiring begins post-COVID crisis, employers in some areas of the world are contemplating a new way to help those who have recovered from the virus or who have antibodies gain employment.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday appealed directly to his former colleagues in the Senate to “take a step back from the brink.”

Amy Coney Barrett’s fast-track rise is the fulfillment of a decadeslong effort by conservatives to remake the federal bench.

Investors who profited from Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme even though they knew nothing of it must still pay back their profits, an appeals court decided Thursday.