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A bold gambit to reduce demand for child porn

Federal prosecutors and a New York lawyer are persuading courts to order anyone caught with illicit images to pay financial restitution to child victims.
Burress's legal Hail Mary pass falls short

He wanted to persuade a grand jury of his innocence. Instead, it indicted him on three separate charges. Jail time is now a distinct possibility.
Judge orders release of young Afghan detainee

The Justice Department must now decide whether to try the terror suspect, now in Guantánamo, in US courts or let him return to Afghanistan.
Obama will close Gitmo on time, officials say

The administration also tells Congress Tuesday that it will decide the status of all 229 detainees by Oct. 1.
Seven North Carolinians charged in terror plot

The indictment, unsealed Monday, says they were planning to attack targets overseas. It is not clear if they were connected to Al Qaeda.
Racial justice only for the 'well connected'? blacks ask

Gates's run-in with the law was tame compared with other incidents, one says in an interview.
Sotomayor's views on property rights cause concern

She was part of an appeals-court panel in 2006 that favored a private developer with the authority to seize land by eminent domain.
State of diversity on the courts

Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination draws focus to the gains of minority and female judges nationwide.
Gates arrest: racial profiling or 'tempest in a teapot'?

The city of Cambridge, Mass., has dropped its charges against a Harvard professor who alleges he was arrested for breaking into his own house only because he is black.
Why did it take so long to catch spy for China?

For 27 years, a Boeing engineer sent documents on military projects to Beijing. He's been convicted, but the extent of the damage may never be known.
Warrantless Wiretaps: Were They Valuable?

Bush and Cheney thought so, but some Justice Department officials said they were illegal.
'MySpace Mom' acquitted in cyberbullying case

The ruling reveals the limits of the law in cracking down on the growing problem of bullying online.
Supreme Court leaves hanging the case of detained Uighurs

The justices' inaction this term probably extends the 13 detainees' time at Guantánamo.
After 19 years, Souter and the Supreme Court part, with poetry

As the New Englander retires, he and Chief Justice John Roberts exchange warm letters of farewell – and a few verses of Robert Frost.
Firefighter ruling dials up heat on Sotomayor

The Supreme Court on Monday reversed a decision that she had made as part of a three-judge panel. The case centered on issues of race and discrimination.
Supreme Court rules protests at troops' funerals can continue

The high court won't intervene in free-speech case involving a church's antigay demonstrations.
Court rules for white firefighters, reversing Sotomayor panel

The Supreme Court rules 5 to 4 that officials in New Haven, Conn., violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act in throwing out the results of a promotion exam.
Supreme Court says criminal defendants can challenge forensic experts

Minority justices warn that the guilty 'will go free on the most technical grounds.'
Supreme Court: Strip-search of 13-year-old girl was illegal

The decision sets the standard for how far school officials can go in conducting searches of students' property.
Guantánamo detainee, considered an enemy by both sides, is ordered freed

A federal judge orders release of a Syrian national who Al Qaeda suspected was a US spy.