A defendant who viewed pornographic images of a child cannot be forced to pay for the victim’s counseling costs because she cannot show that his actions caused the trauma that made the treatment necessary, the 2nd Circuit has ruled.

The question of whether our leaders should be the smartest and best-educated among us is a subject of regular debate these days. Only in America would we find a way to make this a highly partisan issue, write Katherine A.

The family from a hit TV show has filed a federal suit challenging Utah’s anti-bigamy law. Law professor Jonathan Turley, who is representing them pro bono, says he has questioned the treatment of polygamists in the aftermath of the landmark U.S

The CIA may exempt from Freedom of Information Act disclosure materials that reveal intelligence sources and methods, even though they relate to the secret detention and interrogation program deemed illegal by the Obama administration in 2009, a New York federal judge has ruled, rejecting a claim by the ACLU and other plaintiffs. The ruling was the latest in a series in the six-year-old FOIA litigation on materials relating to the treatment of prisoners and rendition of detainees to countries that practice torture.

In the latest strike in the war between Abbott Biotech and Centocor Ortho Biotech, Abbott has filed a complaint in federal district court claiming that Centocor’s psoriasis drug Stelera infringes an Abbott patent on a human antibody critical to the treatment of some autoimmune disorders. Centocor recently won the biggest patent infringement verdict in U.S. history against Abbott in a suit alleging that Abbott’s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug, Humira, infringes a patent co-owned by Centocor.