An Alabama federal judge charged with domestic violence following his arrest in Atlanta is embarrassed and entering a treatment program, one of his attorneys said Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says the makers of a name brand drug may have to correct a patent that could hinder the approval of a generic drug. The high court on Tuesday agreed with a court decision that forced ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered an Indiana man charged with coercing a Maryland teen and another boy into making sexually explicit online videos to be held without bond, the U.S. attorney’s office said. During a hearing in ...

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WASHINGTON — A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried to create fairer results, but the differences don’t line up with the party of the president who ...

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PHOENIX — A federal judge blocked police in Arizona from enforcing a section of the state’s 2010 immigration enforcement law that prohibited people from blocking traffic when they seek or offer day labor services on streets. U.S. District Judge Susan ...

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A federal judge has dismissed a Salvadoran woman’s suit alleging two Frederick County sheriff’s deputies discriminated against her during a 2008 encounter that led to her arrest on an immigration warrant. Judge Benson Everett Legg ruled Tuesday that the deputies ...

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A lawyer at a federal civil trial in Baltimore is calling a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy “sadistic” for using a stun gun to subdue an unarmed man who died shortly thereafter. Attorney Gregory Lattimer made his opening statement Tuesday ...

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NEW YORK — A federal judge has affirmed a bankruptcy court ruling that thousands of clients of funds that invested money with jailed financier Bernard Madoff do not qualify for payouts that reimburse Madoff customers. The decision made public Thursday ...

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WASHINGTON — A man accused of trying to kill President Barack Obama by firing several shots at the White House from long range must remain in custody to protect the public and the president, a federal judge said Monday. U.S. ...

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