A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional the ban on political and public issue advertisements on noncommercial radio and television stations, rejecting the government’s concern about the dilution of educational programming.

Former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Seregy Aleynikov should not have been charged with crimes under federal espionage and stolen property laws because his conduct did not fit the plain meaning of the statutes, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said this morning.

A case before the D.C. Court of Appeals tackles a question attorneys say was left unanswered by the U.S

In the latest filing in the Defense of Marriage Act case at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, lawyers for House Republicans took a couple of swipes at the Obama administration for its procedural posture.

In a rare reversal in an ineffective assistance case, the New York Court of Appeals has toppled the conviction of a man serving 20 years in prison for molesting his nieces, holding that “competent defense counsel” would have objected to a prosecutor’s “egregiously improper” summation.