Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge’s ruling that put most of the state’s immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the U.S.

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel’s July 22 judgment in San Francisco Technology Inc.

The effects of the catastrophic BP oil leak spread all the way to a Philadelphia courtroom when lawyers for Valero Energy Corp. and Premcor Refining Group asked a federal judge to delay a trial because jurors are now biased against the entire oil industry. U.S

If Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is looking for a little more ammunition to shoot down California’s Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage, one of his Massachusetts colleagues has given him some. U.S

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed against Detroit by a former top city attorney who lost her job after describing a court as a “ghetto court.” U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Tarnow on Thursday agreed with the city’s claim that the comment was made in Kathleen Leavey’s role as interim head of Detroit’s law department and she had no free-speech protection