Judge Richard Posner picks apart Justice Antonin Scalia’s arguments for textualism in a book review that touches on the meaning of “sandwich” and the role of cognitive delusion in judicial…
A defense lawyer’s handling of what could have been a routine probation-revocation hearing resulted in a huge shake-up in Harris County, Texas, after witnesses responding to questions by Lisa Andrews…
For thousands of years, humans somehow managed to survive without smartphones, a federal judge told a fired former law firm worker and her husband on Monday during a hearing on…
The California Supreme Court has ruled a death row inmate is entitled to a new penalty hearing because the prosecution withheld evidence in his 1987 trial that he may have…
The First Amendment doesn’t bar the prosecution of a former Army sergeant who sang and rapped a threat to a judge on YouTube, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A couple who were active in the sovereign citizens movement have pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill a federal judge who presided in a tax case that cost them their…
A Detroit judge who cleared her courtroom last week because a bailiff saw bedbugs crawling on a man is talking about the incident on her Facebook page.
After previously questioning the impartiality of a panel overseeing a controversial legal ethics case against a Canadian judge, a lawyer serving in something of a prosecutorial role has stepped down…
A New York judge who has been threatened several times during his nearly 20 years on the bench decided he wanted to get a concealed-carry permit and take a loaded…
A New York judge who abruptly resigned without explanation in April has been retroactively removed from office by state disciplinary officials for allegedly sexually molesting his deaf 5-year-old niece 40…
Updated: New model jury instructions (PDF) developed by a federal Judicial Conference committee expand a previous ban on social media use and explain in simple…
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