A federal appeals judge warned a congressional panel on Wednesday that $350 million in sequestration cuts to court funding has resulted in emergency measures that are “unsustainable, difficult and painful…
Personal trainer Bryant Johnson is a records manager in Washington, D.C., federal court by day. In the evening, he is a personal trainer who counts Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and…
After last week’s layoff of 22 lawyers, a Detroit prosecutor says her office is stretched too thin to cover all traffic court and domestic violence cases.
Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen G. Breyer told a House appropriations subcommittee on Thursday that sequestration could have a serious impact on lower federal courts.
A federal appeals court has removed a judge from the trial of reputed gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, who is accused of committing 19 murders as part of a racketeering conspiracy.
Legal aid groups have banded together and filed a federal lawsuit over a plan to reduce to five the number of Los Angeles County courts that hear eviction cases.
A lawyer with Squire Sanders in Miami showed up for an interview for a federal appeals clerkship last year with a laptop outfitted with the software that helps him practice…
A prominent securities class action lawyer is facing a lawsuit by the estate of a former Pennsylvania judge who died after falling down the stairs during a party at the…
An Arkansas lawyer who missed a scheduled court hearing on the day the state’s attorney general publicly admitted that the two had had an “inappropriate” extramarital relationship has been held…
A federal judge overseeing the tax evasion trial of a Chicago politician issued a gag order Wednesday prohibiting lawyers from talking to the media after his defense counsel complained that…
A third Pennsylvania judge has taken a plea in a federal ticket-fixing case in which nine jurists who work in Philadelphia traffic court and suburban courts were charged.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is still hearing cases in federal appeals courts, a fact highlighted in a Supreme Court case to be heard Monday.
After civil rights groups went to bat on his behalf, a Michigan lawyer is once again free to use his Facebook page to post about class action litigation over chicken…
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