Dan Rivoli

David Kugel, who started working at Bernie Madoff's firm from the 1970s until its 2008 demise, pled guilty to six-counts of bank and securities fraud.

The Supreme Court Friday tapped two lawyers to argue issues on health care reform law that put the Obama administration and the Affordable Care Act's critics on the same page.

Should an aspiring attorney with a well-documented history of lying be banned from practicing law?

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the state's congressional delegation on Friday to prevent the so-called super committee from dealing a major blow to the economy of the state with spending cuts.

A bipartisan bill to combat online piracy is running into bipartisan opposition over the broad language in the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.

Acquaintances of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez say that he needed to kill the anti-Christ President Barack Obama.

John A. Mattera was arrested Thursday for telling investors that they could buy shares of stock from Facebook, Twitter and other technology companies before their initial public offering.

U.S. House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on a controversial bill aimed at stopping online piracy.

Xing Wu Pan, also known as Oliver Pan, is accused of taking $16,000 from an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman and distributing it to an unnamed candidate through 20 straw donors.

A federal appeals court threw out a conviction against former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, but allowed prosecutors to get another chance at the powerful politician.

Judge's order follows a NYPD raid of the Occupy Wall Street encampment early Tuesday morning at 1 a.m. EST.

Support is growing for one of the more controversial aspects of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates that most Americans carry health insurance.

A New York State Supreme Court judge granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the city from evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park and preventing them from using tents.

What to know about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas gave no indication Monday that they will heed their critics' calls and recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday outlined how the justices will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's domestic agenda.

We find that Supreme Court justices are significantly more predictable than one would expect from 'ideally independent' justices in 'ideal courts,' that is, independently evaluating cases on merits, free of ideology, a new study says.

Joe Paterno's lawyer, J. Sedwick Sollers, is a managing partner at King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., who represented former President George H. W. Bush during the Iran-Contra affair.

The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court Thursday to refuse to hear a case challenging Arizona's anti-immigration law.

A group of 70 corporations, trade groups and organizations filed a brief in support of a lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

A federal jury in Manhattan acquitted state Assemblyman William Boyland of charges accusing him of taking a no-show consulting job at a hospital company.

Senate Republicans say repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) would force states to recognize legal, out-of-state, same-sex marriages

The National Meat Association says a California law mandating humane treatment and euthanization of animals is preempted by a federal meat inspection law.

Democrats overturned an anti-union law in Ohio, while a Mississippi constitutional amendment related to abortion was defeated.

Justice Stephen Breyer likened a scenario of warrantless use of GPS technology to George Orwell's 1984.

The Supreme Court has chipped away at the length and severity of sentences imposed on juveniles.

An appellate court in Washington, D.C., became the fourth to issue a ruling on the Affordable Care Act.

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a billionaire who had considered running as an independent presidential candidate, called on Democrats and Republicans in Washington to create a deficit reduction plan that includes tax increases, spending cuts, and entitlement reform.

The 24/7 nature of Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots distinguish this protest movement from others that relied more on rallies.