President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board last year were “constitutionally invalid” because the Senate wasn’t in recess at the time, a federal appeals court ruled.
Read More »Tobacco companies must admit lying on products
U.S. tobacco companies including Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA must publish warnings with their products, in advertisements and on their websites saying they lied to the public about the health hazards of smoking, a federal judge has held.
Read More »Medical marijuana backers ask judges for looser regulations
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ignored research showing marijuana had legitimate medical uses when it rejected efforts to reclassify the drug as a less harmful substance last year, a lawyer for medical marijuana backers told a federal appeals court.
Read More »Trial opens over Texas photo-ID law
The Obama administration’s claim that Texas’s voter identification law will keep blacks and Hispanics away from the polls this November will be tested in a week-long federal trial that started Monday in Washington.
Read More »Clemens wife testifies McNamee gave her shot
Roger Clemens’s wife testified at her husband’s perjury trial that his former trainer Brian McNamee injected her with human growth hormone on an occasion when her husband wasn’t present.
Read More »Clemens judge begins screening jurors for retrial on perjury
The judge overseeing the trial of Roger Clemens began screening 80 to 90 potential jurors for the ex-New York Yankees pitcher’s retrial on perjury charges.
Read More »Express Scripts hearing begins
A hearing on a bid by pharmacy trade groups to halt Express Scripts Inc.’s $29.1 billion acquisition of Medco Health Solutions Inc. has begun in federal court in Pittsburgh.
Read More »Judge rejects challenge to Obama’s NLRB appointments
A judge rejected a challenge to U.S. President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, calling it a “political dispute.”
Read More »U.S. accuses AseraCare Hospice of defrauding Medicare
AseraCare Hospice submitted “false and fraudulent” claims for payment to the U.S. and misspent millions of dollars in Medicare money meant for the care of terminally ill patients, the government alleged in a lawsuit.
Read More »Group after Solyndra data sues Obama administration
Judicial Watch Inc., a Washington-based advocacy group, sued the Obama administration seeking documents related to a $535 million federal loan guarantee for failed solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra.
Read More »Court rules health care law constitutional
President Barack Obama’s health care legislation requiring almost all Americans to have medical insurance beginning in 2014 is constitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled.
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