“Judiciary” on The Daily Caller

LONDON (AP) — After reviving the pride of New England, John Henry and Tom Werner will try to resuscitate one of Old England’s most famous soccer teams. (more)

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Crucial pieces of a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care overhaul can go to trial, with a judge ruling Thursday he wants to hear more arguments over whether it’s constitutional to force citizens to buy health insurance. (more)

EWING, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Legislature isn’t acting quickly enough to satisfy the Republican governor. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that abruptly ending the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy as a federal judge has ordered would have enormous consequences. (more)

DENVER (AP) — The Justice Department is battling to save a federal law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero, appealing two court rulings that the statute is an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court opened its new term with Justice Elena Kagan on the bench. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — First Amendment cases top the Supreme Court’s docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time. (more)

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s Supreme Court upheld Thursday a decision by the National Election Committee forcing state radio and television to run a far-right party’s election advertisement that refers to “Gypsy criminals.” (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether the estate of Anna Nicole Smith should get part of the fortune left behind by the elderly Texas billionaire whom Smith married in the mid-1990s. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In one way at least, the fight for control of Congress is grossly one-sided. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a pair of town houses less than 10 blocks from where the Supreme Court gave his group a place in legal history, David Bossie is making movies and cutting a path for a new art form: the nonpolitical political ad. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — An unusually large contingent of female Republican candidates with strong anti-abortion views is heating up debate on the issue and could change the political equation in the next Congress. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block the execution of a woman convicted of two hired killings, clearing the way for the state’s first execution of a woman in nearly a century. (more)

DALLAS (AP) — A federal appeals court revived the Securities and Exchange Commission’s insider-trading lawsuit against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Tuesday, saying it was “plausible” he had agreed not to sell company stock to avoid a loss after receiving confidential information. (more)

MEXICO CITY — The movie that Mexican director Luis Estrada is putting out for his country’s bicentennial is bluntly named “Hell.” (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday allowed the holder of a movie copyright to subpoena the names of people accused of illegally downloading and distributing a film over the Internet. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s expansion of stem cell research has suffered a significant setback with a judge’s ruling that blocks important work on treating life-threatening conditions, say private groups pushing for scientific breakthroughs in medicine. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Certified nursing assistant Brenda Chaney was on duty in an Indiana nursing home one day when she discovered a patient lying on the floor, unable to stand. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The ACLU of Virginia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that bans alcohol advertising in Virginia’s college newspapers. (more)