PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that sued to block it, saying that people can’t be required to buy health insurance. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed ...

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GREENBELT — Federal authorities say a Maryland inmate has been charged with threatening President Barack Obama and a federal judge in letters. Forty-year-old Willie Ray Bryant was indicted Monday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. According to the two-page indictment, ...

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A federal judge in Baltimore has granted in part a motion for a preliminary injunction against a former Pizza Boli’s franchisee in Washington, D.C., prohibiting him from using the company’s trademarks and operating the franchise restaurant. Baltimore-based franchisor Prosperity Systems ...

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A federal judge has awarded more than $1.1 million to a major Washington, D.C.-based commercial real estate information company as compensation for unauthorized use of its online property database. After holding a two-day bench trial in Greenbelt in late October, ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge declared the foundation of President Barack Obama’s health care law unconstitutional Monday, ruling that the government cannot require Americans to purchase insurance. The case is expected to end up at the Supreme Court. U.S. ...

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow snowmaking by using treated wastewater at a northern Arizona ski resort. The ruling dealt a blow to environmentalists in their latest effort to ...

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A federal judge could decide as early as Wednesday whether a Baltimore drug manufacturer must cancel a long-planned winter shutdown to make hundreds of thousands of doses of a colorectal cancer treatment. But if the judge’s candid comments at the ...

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NEW YORK — A federal judge is allowing a portion of a proposed class-action securities fraud lawsuit against Citigroup Inc., several executives and a board member to go forward. In a ruling filed Tuesday, Judge Sidney H. Stein said enough ...

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A federal judge has sentenced a Baltimore man to 27 months in prison for stealing more than $233,000 from a nonprofit group. The U.S. Attorney’s office says U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett also ordered 56-year-old Victor Frierson to pay ...

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Maryland must extend its absentee ballot deadline by 10 days to accommodate uniformed service members or those who are otherwise overseas, a federal judge ruled Friday Judge Roger W. Titus’ preliminary injunction comes in a U.S. District Court case brought ...

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