Saying that Congress has barred the judicial branch from reviewing the treatment of detainees, a D.C. federal judge has tossed out the lawsuit of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee seeking damages for the physical and psychological abuse to which he was allegedly subjected at the U.S. military base.

An actress is suing Amazon.com for more than $1 million for revealing her age on its Internet Movie Database website and refusing to remove the reference when asked.

A law professor has lost an appeal in his lawsuit against Geico General Insurance Co. because he gave away a key piece of evidence — his car — before it could be examined in the case.

A lawsuit filed by four women against Joe Francis, producer of the “Girls Gone Wild” videos, has prompted an unusual free speech battle over whether the identities of the four should be kept under wraps.

Washington lawyer Leicester Stovell says a federal judge should not dismiss his lawsuit trying to prove that basketball star LeBron James is his son. In his filing last week, Stovell says a motion to dismiss his suit is partly a “diatribe” accusing him of “crawling out of the woodwork after the child he never gave a thought to became an NBA star.” Stovell’s filing says the judge in the case is the only one who can give him the final answer he’s looking for about paternity — as well as money for “mental anguish.”