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A federal judge's long-term same-sex relationship did not mean he would be biased in handling the legal challenge to Proposition 8 and does not justify wiping out his ruling invalidating California's ban on gay marriage, the Bay Area's chief federal judge ruled Tuesday.

A federal district judge in San Francisco has scheduled a hearing Monday over whether the retired federal judge who struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage should have his ruling wiped from the legal record because of his relationship with a man.

NFL players suing the league on antitrust grounds scored another courtroom victory late last night, as Federal District Court Judge Susan Nelson denied the NFL’s request for a stay to the preliminary injunction she granted Monday to lift the six-week lockout.

A federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that President Barack Obama's entire health care overhaul law is unconstitutional, placing even noncontroversial provisions under a cloud in a broad challenge that seems certain to be resolved only by the Supreme Court....

A U.S. district judge's ruling that overthrows a key portion of President Obama's health care law conflicts with other lower-court rulings.

A federal judge today struck down part of President Obama's health law requiring most Americans to purchase health insurance.

Thomas Porteous is removed from office after being found guilty on corruption and perjury charges brought by the House. The vote on one count is unanimous. The Senate on Wednesday convicted a Louisiana federal judge on corruption and perjury charges, the first time in more than two decades the chamber has voted to remove a public official after an impeachment trial.

Actor Wesley Snipes is asking the federal judge who ordered him to report to prison by Dec. 9th, to let him put off the start of his three year sentence on tax charges until Jan. 6th. In an “Emergency Motion To Stay Self Surrender” filed Friday, Snipes argues that as the father of four children, aged 4 to 9, he shouldn’t be forced to turn himself in “in the middle of the holiday season.”

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Liberty University's lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's new federal health care law, declaring that a provision requiring most individuals to obtain insurance is constitutional.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon in Lynchburg is the second court decision upholding the law, following one in Michigan in October. University law school dean Mathew Staver said in a telephone interview that he will promptly appeal the ruling to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected an attempt to stop some key provisions of the new national health-care law, saying Congress has the authority to require people to get insurance by 2014.