At a business-law panel, a top Justice Department lawyer talked about settling the Microsoft antitrust case, a move applauded by conservatives, who saw the suit as Clinton-era interference with the prerogatives of big business.
"Its minimum standards are generally accepted throughout the world as customary international law," the panel said.
By law, the panel's failure triggers new caps on spending, cutting $1.2 trillion from the military, education, health care and other priorities over 10 years beginning next fall.
Under the law, the panel must decide annually whether to discontinue investigations of independent counsels like Mr. Ray who were named before the law expired.
But under a requirement in the new Medicare law, a panel of 13 administration officials is studying ways to ensure the safety of imported drugs.
The Swiss Bank Corporation, now part of Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS A.G., and the predecessor to Vontobel Holding A.G., one of the country's largest private banks, took active roles in trading stolen securities, which violated Swiss law, the panel said.
ATLANTA — In perhaps the weightiest of the dozens of challenges to the Obama health care law, a panel of appellate judges grappled Wednesday with the essential quandary of the case: if the federal government can require Americans to buy medical insurance, what constitutional limit would prevent it from mandating all manner of purchases and activities?
SAN FRANCISCO — In a decision that could set the stage for a test of the supremacy of a longstanding federal labor law, a panel of federal judges found Tuesday that San Francisco had the right to charge employers to help pay for its universal health care plan, the first in the nation.
In what may signal a heightened significance for a case testing the constitutionality of a 1998 digital copyright law, a panel of appeals court judges has asked both sides of a case to answer a list of 11 questions on whether computer code can qualify as free speech.
Although U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel issued an injunction blocking the admitting privileges requirement in Texas' new restrictive abortion law, a panel of judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled the state could move forward with the provision.
Throwing over a century of case law, the panel of D.C. judges would limit the President's authority to the pure happenstance that it occurs precisely within a recess, rather far more responsively to its announced purpose to address the broader run of vacancies that happen to exist going into the recess.
