The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a suit by the city that sought to make firearm makers responsible for the illegal sale of weapons.

Regardless of all its achievements, T-Mobile does not stop here. The company continues to work on the new services and winning new user groups.

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Poorly written Justice Department documents cost the federal government more than $100 million in what was supposed to have been the crowning moment of the biggest tax prosecution ever.

A senior Justice Department official who recently resigned her post bought a nearly $1 million vacation home with a lobbyist for ConocoPhillips months before approving consent decrees that would give the oil company more time to pay millions of dollars in fines and meet pollution-cleanup rules at some of its refineries.

The Bush administration officially withdrew four of its most controversial nominations to the federal appellate bench yesterday, bowing to the political reality of a Senate Judiciary Committee under the control of Democrats who show no inclination to confirm them.

President Bush has selected Fred F. Fielding to be his White House counsel, recruiting a seasoned Washington veteran to represent the president with Democratic congressional investigators and reprise the job he held under Ronald Reagan, sources close to the process said yesterday.

Oh, the hazards of being a flea market tax preparer. Here's a choice excerpt: The complaint says that on a return for one customer-a babysitter-McFarland claimed that the customer purchased 16,451 gallons of gasoline for business-related purposes. The suit notes that for such a claim to be accurate, the babysitter (whose total income for the year was $9,316) would have had to spend approximately $36,192 for gasoline that year-nearly four times her total income-and would had to have driven approximately 246,765 miles during the year, an average of 676 miles each day, seven days a week.

The Bush administration asked an appeals court Thursday to step in immediately and dismiss a lawsuit over the U.S. government's warrantless wire tapping program, calling a lower judge's ruling dangerous and wrong.

Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters are awaiting their punishment for refusing to testify about who leaked them secret grand jury testimony from Barry Bonds and other elite athletes.