U.S. Chief Justice nominee John Roberts, his record on civil rights and women’s rights challenged by Democrats, vowed at the start of his Senate confirmation hearing on Monday to ensure that the Supreme Court protects all Americans. “I have no agenda, but I do have a commitment,” Roberts, President George W. Bush’s conservative nominee to […]

At his confirmation hearings this week, Judge John G. Roberts Jr. will be asked to respond to questions about documents he wrote as a young government lawyer. The questions are sure to be sharp, but at least he can take solace in the fact that his mentor, and the man whom he seeks to replace,

It was always going to be an intense week for John Roberts. But it suddenly grew more so. On September 6th, he was due to be grilled by the Senate to see if he would make an adequate Supreme Court justice, having been nominated two months ago to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, who is retiring.

A Manhattan judge has ruled that a law firm accused of legal malpractice over advice it gave clients on mutual fund “late trading” can seek discovery from two other law firms, one of which is now representing the same clients in ongoing government investigations of late trading. Supreme Court Justice Rolando Acosta ordered LeBoeuf, Lamb,

Microsoft EUMicrosoft has launched a legal challenge to protect itself from an order by the European Commission to make valuable information about the group’s flagship Windows operating system available to rivals in the open-source community. The move comes is the latest twist in the long anti-trust battle between the Commission and the US software group

According to documents presented in a legal tussle between Internet rivals Microsoft and Google, Ballmer vowed to “kill” Google in an obscenity-laden tirade last November. Sworn evidence from a former Microsoft engineer, Mark Lucovsky, claimed Ballmer picked up his chair and hurled it across his office, before saying of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt: “I’m going

President Bush moved quickly yesterday to fill the vacancy left by the death of William Rehnquist, nominating John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Mr Roberts, an appeals court judge, had been named to take the seat on the court vacated by Sandra Day O’Connor, who announced her retirement in July.

Microsoft’s chief executive vowed last year to crush Google, the Internet search company, while a Google executive urged colleagues to pursue the hiring of a Microsoft employee “like wolves,” according to documents filed on Friday in an increasingly bitter legal battle. The allegations, filed in a Washington State court, came in a showdown prompted by

William H. Rehnquist, the 16th Chief Justice of the United States and a leader of the court’s conservative bloc for three decades, died Saturday evening at his home in Arlington, a court spokesman announced. Rehnquist, 80, has been undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer since October. His death creates the first vacancy for a chief justice

A federal judge in New York threw out the Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Siebel Systems Inc., dealing a setback to regulators’ drive to ensure that companies share key information with all of their investors, not just favored clients and analysts. In the lawsuit filed last year, the SEC accused the software company, Chief