In 1987, a divided Supreme Court ruled that district court judges have the authority to appoint private attorneys to ...

In a long-running dispute over money, the federal government holds in trust for Native American tribes, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth held interior secretaries Gale Norton, a Republican ...

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