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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee threatened former White House Counsel Harriet Miers with criminal contempt charges if she continues to defy its subpoena to testify about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Committee Chairman John Conyers of Michigan gave Miers ...

Iraq War veteran Anthony Klecker, a former U.S. Marine who served in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide after causing the death of a teenage girl while driving drunk. He was sentenced in Dakota ...

Employers could be penalized for attitudes held only in their unconscious. Unconscious workplace bias, more subtle than overt discrimination, is being tackled as part of a new initiative of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Employment law attorney Sam Fulkerson ...

Patent lawyers and inventors sued the U.S. Commerce Department, demanding the ouster of a former aide to Congressman Dennis Hastert as the second-in-command at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Deputy Director Margaret J.A. Peterlin, who was counsel and national ...

Allen Iverson must pay $265K over brawl, jury says Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson must pay $265,000 in damages to a man injured by the basketball player’s bodyguards in a bar fight two years ago, a jury ruled. On Monday, ...

A women’s motorcycle group from San Francisco fended off a challenge to its use of the trademark Dykes on Bikes because the person objecting to it was a man. Michael J. McDermott of Dublin, Calif., opposed the trademark, saying the ...

An investor and ex-government lawyer avoided prison for taking part in the illegal purchase of shares in a Connecticut bank’s initial public offering. George J. Kundrat, 52, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and cooperated with prosecutors, was sentenced Tuesday to ...

The U.S. economy’s take-off from a near standstill in the first quarter may prove bumpier than the Federal Reserve and many on Wall Street expect as tighter credit acts as a headwind to growth. What started as a financing squeeze ...

State lawmakers, faced with a record number of constituents who may lose their homes, are pressing to pass their own laws to halt mortgage-lending abuses, saying they can’t afford to rely on the U.S. Congress to act. Legislators in some ...

Robert G. Perry, who oversaw AT&T’s corporate sponsorship of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, has been named the head of a charitable trust that supports the programs of the National Endowment for ...

President George W. Bush plunged into the cotton fields of northern Alabama last month to fete the restart of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s oldest, most troubled nuclear reactor after a $1.8 billion renovation. “We want to start building plants,” said ...