A California man serving 25 years in state prison for first-degree murder has been convicted of threatening the former chief judge of the federal court in San Diego. Eric Anthony Lopez was found guilty of writing U.S.

The 9th Circuit has revived a suit by a Stanford Ph.D.

In a case of first impression, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a court system supervisor may be liable as an individual under the federal law that allows employees to take 12 weeks of job-protected leave for medical reasons. The issue has split the circuit courts.

Rejecting a Delaware corporation’s arguments, the 3rd Circuit ruled last week that a Pennsylvania state law that mandates that steel used in public works projects be made in the United States is not unconstitutional or pre-empted by the federal Buy American Act.

The Occupy movement took its campaign against corporate domination to the federal judiciary Friday. Demonstrators pushed through a police barricade and stormed the U.S. Supreme Court building, while others massed at federal courthouses nationwide to protest the Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision.