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A unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel reversed the only ruling ever to hold the government's main fraud-recovery tool unconstitutional, but it answered just half of the governing test and sent two live constitutional challenges back to the same judge.

A commutation signed September 3 freed John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty after roughly two years of a six-year sentence for bribery and for embezzling from his own union, weeks after a federal judge and the Justice Department's own clemency office had each refused him, and no warrant has been published showing what it actually covers.

Before there was a prison commissary there was the company store, and the company store is where the arithmetic was first worked out.

The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command told Senator Ron Wyden they now switch off the advertising identifier on government devices, and the lawmakers who asked responded by referring the matter to the Inspector General, because location data traceable to Department facilities is apparently still for sale.

Homeland Security Investigations sent 92 customs summonses, a records power written for checking whether import duties were paid, to demand a journalist's phone logs and the identity of everyone around Minneapolis who bought a particular green hat, with no judge asked and the targets never told.

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Transnational repression names a specific act: a government, or a network acting in alignment with one, reaching across an international border to surveil, intimidate, coerce, abduct or kill a person who has left its…

A federal judge in Nevada found that immigration authorities had engaged in a systemic pattern of ignoring his orders, and a federal appeals court has now made the legal theory behind those orders binding across nine states.

Federal prosecutors charged 37 people tied to India-based crime networks and placed a 2023 assassination in Canada inside a racketeering count, which is not the same thing as charging anyone with murder.

Two motions will be argued at once in San Jose on October 1, and the live question has narrowed from whether OpenAI took Apple's hardware secrets to whether Apple may look inside OpenAI's computers before trial.