Lori Drew appears in Los Angeles federal court, June 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Bill Robles) For those keeping score in the MySpace suicide case, defendant Lori Drew's attorney, H. Dean Steward, filed his motions to dismiss the indictment today in California federal court. Here are the three motions to dismiss for: failure to state an offense, vagueness [...]...

However, it seems beyond debate that it is truly depressing that law deans, who have so many important educational issues to address, feel the pressure they undeniably feel to make important decisions about their schools in response to a popular magazine's educationally unsophisticated decisions about ranking methodology. — Gary J. Simson, dean of Case Western [...]...

As you may remember, last month Massachusetts got the party started by suing UBS for fraud and dishonest conduct in sales of auction-rate securities. The suit alleged that UBS reps told investors that the securities “were safe, liquid ‘cash alternatives’ when UBS knew they were not.” The bank is defending itself against the suit and [...]...

When the prosecutor delivered his opening statement in the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan — Osama bin Laden's former driver — he said he would show that Hamdan heard bin Laden describe the target of United Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in a field just outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 44 [...]...

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals struck social conservatives a blow this afternoon, agreeing with a lower court that shot down as unconstitutional COPA, or the Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. Here's the AP report, and here's the opinion. [...]...