A much-anticipated ruling against President Obama's health care reform law has come down: Federal judge Henry Hudson has found the law's requirement to purchase health insurance unconstitutional. Two previous judges had upheld it. This will probably reach the Supreme Court.

Former Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, that crony everyone hated several years ago, has enlisted 23 former Cabinet colleagues to help raise money for his endless legal bills. Read their joint letter and contribute here! Or do something else.

We all knew Harvey Levin's TMZ pays people to leak information to them, as recently fired L.A. County Superior Court spokesman has been accused of doing. But their real secret? Just plant a staffer on the courthouse payroll. [Update below]

A Stockholm court has issued a warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's arrest, just to ask him some questions about those mysterious rape charges. Assange's only recourse now is to... simply not go to Sweden, of course! That's easy enough.

Relentlessly bitchy Rep. Charlie Rangel's House ethics trial began in Congress today! And shortly thereafter, Rangel walked out. He didn't have a lawyer and blames this on the ethics committee, somehow. Maybe they could've worked this out beforehand? Video below.

David Kernell, the Tennessee student who "hacked" into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account two years ago by correctly answering her easy password-reminder question — a crime that Palin has compared to Watergate — has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Do I have any outstanding arrest warrants?" Yeah, same here. A four-day event last week in New Jersey called "Fugitive Safe Surrender" allowed minor offenders to turn themselves in. 3,901 people showed up.

A federal judge has already blocked Oklahoma's new ban on Sharia law enforcement, which they voted into the state constitution last Tuesday. Stupid judge! Can't he see that encroaching Muslims forces are only miles away from capturing Tulsa?

Being high school pals with Jeffrey Dahmer is a great way to get out of jury duty.

A federal appeals court will allow the military to continue expelling gay and lesbian soldiers under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," siding with the government over the judge who ruled against the policy. So, for now, don't ask, or tell.

Does the Justice Department really need to appeal the recent decision that found "Don't Ask Don't Tell" unconstitutional, under its duty to defend existing federal law? Eh, not really, says ex-solicitor general Ted Olson, of Prop 8 trial fame.

20-year-old Zachary Adam Chesser, the guy who famously warned South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker about depicting the prophet Mohammed on their cartoon show, will plead guilty to (unrelated) terrorism charges in federal court today.

The United Arab Emirates' Supreme Court ruled today that a man can beat his wife and kids—as long as he leaves no visible marks.

Four men arrested last year for planting bombs outside Bronx synagogues and threatening to fire missiles at military planes were convicted today.

A Manhattan woman wants a Connecticut court to let a New Jersey doctor harvest the sperm from her husband's body after he committed suicide so a family friend can have his baby. This is real life, not a soap opera.

The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to let it keep enforcing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" while it appeals the injunction.

After a federal judge yesterday ordered the military to stop enforcing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Rep. Barney Frank called for the Obama administration to wait to appeal the ruling until after Congress can repeal the policy in a lame-duck session.

An appeals court will let the federal government resume funding stem-cell research, for now.

A Detroit-area woman was kicked off a jury for commenting on Facebook that it's "gonna be fun to tell the defendant they're GUILTY" before the trial was over or the defense even presented its case. Guess what her punishment was?

A California judge has ruled that Sarah Palin's $75,000 contract for a state university speech shouldn't have been kept private. Now you can read it! Earlier this year, some dumpster-diving college kids had salvaged the part demanding bendable straws.