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Already Slapped with $10K Sanction for Depo Conduct, NY Lawyer Is Now Ordered to Pay $36K Legal Fees

Already slapped earlier this year with a $10,000 sanction by a state appeals court for his insulting deposition conduct toward a trial judge, her clerk, a court reporter and plaintiff’s counsel in a diamond dealer debt case, a New York lawyer must now pay a little over $36,000 in legal…

Oct 29, 2012 8:06 PM CDT

As Hurricane Sandy Sweeps In, Courts and Law Firms Close Down in DC, NJ and NY

Updated: As what is expected to be an epic storm sweeps into the East Coast from Florida to Canada and could hit the Northeast especially hard, courts and law firms both large and small joined numerous other establishments—including the U.S. Supreme Court—on Monday in announcing that their operations would be…

Oct 29, 2012 7:45 PM CDT

Federal Judge Axes 1 Count in Drug Cover-up Case of Ex-Tenn. Jurist, Calls Proof In Others ‘Slim’

Things began to look up a little bit Monday for a disgraced former Tennessee judge accused of lying to three other judges and a prosecutor to try to conceal a prescription drug-trafficking conspiracy related to a woman with whom he was having an affair. U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer axed…

Oct 29, 2012 6:35 PM CDT

As Hurricane Sandy Closes Many East Coast Courts, Supreme Court Stays Open on Monday

Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court isn’t going to let Hurricane Sandy put a damper on its proceedings, at least not on Monday. Even as courts and governments across the Eastern United States are shutting down, the top court plans to stick to its oral argument schedule, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy…

Oct 29, 2012 11:38 AM CDT

Municipal Court Judge Faces Felonies for Alleged Hit-and-Run

Gladys Toney Bransford, a Houston municipal court judge, was charged with hitting a woman with her car, driving away and tampering with evidence. Bransford, 75, works part-time for the court, the Houston Chronicle reports. Graciela Almuhammadawy told police a woman in a black Mercedes-Benz hit her in a 99 Cent…

Oct 26, 2012 8:43 PM CDT

Men Who Hired Fake Lawyer to File Phony Tax Returns Get 1-Year Sentence

Two Texas men who hired a phony lawyer to allegedly help them file fraudulent tax returns were sentenced to prison Thursday. Richard Tilford and Bartlett Smith each were sentenced to serve a year for for tax evasion, the Dallas Morning News’ Crime Blog reports. According to the article, Tilford, a…

Oct 26, 2012 6:14 PM CDT

Scalia’s Advice to Law Students: Take Bread-and-Butter Classes, Not ‘Law and Women’

Law students have just one chance to learn the basics, so they should avoid “frill courses,” Justice Antonin Scalia said on Thursday. Scalia spoke at the University of Wyoming after a hunting trip in which he did not bag any antelope, the Associated Press reports. Previous coverage said Scalia planned…

Oct 26, 2012 2:20 PM CDT

Michoacan Judge Accused of Releasing Drug Cartel Suspects Fired

Efrain Cazares, a federal judge for the Mexico state of Michoacan accused of improperly releasing drug cartel suspects, was fired Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. Mexico’s Federal Judiciary Council did not give specifics, according to the AP, but stated that Cazares was removed from the bench for “serious offenses in…

Oct 25, 2012 5:33 PM CDT

Federal Judiciary Faces ‘Fiscal Cliff’ if Budget Act Is Not Adjusted, Says Editorial

If the 2011 Budget Control Act goes forward, the federal judiciary faces an 8.2 percent cost reduction that would send it “over the fiscal cliff,” the American Judicature Society says in an editorial. Funding concerns, according to the nonprofit’s publication Judicature, have already caused the federal court to reduce staff…

Oct 25, 2012 4:25 PM CDT

Ethics Complaint Accuses Philly Judge of Misrepresentations on Candidate Questionnaires

An ethics complaint accuses a Philadelphia judge of leaving negative information off of candidate questionnaires submitted to a committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Judge Thomas Nocella is accused of misrepresentations and omissions on the 2009 and 2011 questionnaires, even though he had certified his answers as complete and correct.…

Oct 25, 2012 11:00 AM CDT

Shame Was in Judge’s Game, Michigan Supreme Court Says

A Michigan judge may have said there was no shame in his game after he sent a courthouse employee a shirtless photo of himself, but the state supreme court apparently felt differently. According to the Detroit Free Press, Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree was reprimanded Wednesday by the Michigan…

Oct 24, 2012 6:17 PM CDT

4th Circuit Upholds Contempt Conviction for Litigant’s Courtroom F-Bomb

A federal appeals court has upheld a contempt conviction for a former inmate who used the F-word in court after a judge dismissed one of his multiple pro se lawsuits against prison officials. The Richmond-Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the contempt conviction for Robert Peoples in a…

Oct 24, 2012 3:37 PM CDT

Inventive Kozinski Gives New Label to a Possibly Concurring Opinion

It’s not a dissent. It’s not a concurrence. It’s “Chief Judge Kozinski, disagreeing with everyone.” Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave that label to his opinion in an en banc immigration case on Friday, report the Wall Street Journal Law Blog,…

Oct 24, 2012 10:30 AM CDT

9th Circuit Judge Betty Fletcher Dies at 89

Betty Fletcher, a judge with the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Monday, the Associated Press reports. Fletcher, 89, was appointed to the court by President Jimmy Carter, and has been on the bench since 1979. She graduated from University of Washington Law School in 1956, according…

Oct 23, 2012 9:05 PM CDT

Why Scalia Is Traveling to Wyoming: It’s Not Just the Antelope Hunting

Caitlin Wallace made a pledge when she was running for president of the Federalist Society at the University of Wyoming. Wallace vowed she would try to get big-name speakers to appear on campus. After getting the position, she wrote to Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, and received a positive…

Oct 23, 2012 10:59 AM CDT

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Judiciary

Already Slapped with $10K Sanction for Depo Conduct, NY Lawyer Is Now Ordered to Pay $36K Legal Fees

As Hurricane Sandy Sweeps In, Courts and Law Firms Close Down in DC, NJ and NY

Federal Judge Axes 1 Count in Drug Cover-up Case of Ex-Tenn. Jurist, Calls Proof In Others ‘Slim’

As Hurricane Sandy Closes Many East Coast Courts, Supreme Court Stays Open on Monday

Municipal Court Judge Faces Felonies for Alleged Hit-and-Run

Men Who Hired Fake Lawyer to File Phony Tax Returns Get 1-Year Sentence

Scalia’s Advice to Law Students: Take Bread-and-Butter Classes, Not ‘Law and Women’

Michoacan Judge Accused of Releasing Drug Cartel Suspects Fired

Federal Judiciary Faces ‘Fiscal Cliff’ if Budget Act Is Not Adjusted, Says Editorial

Ethics Complaint Accuses Philly Judge of Misrepresentations on Candidate Questionnaires

Shame Was in Judge’s Game, Michigan Supreme Court Says

4th Circuit Upholds Contempt Conviction for Litigant’s Courtroom F-Bomb

Inventive Kozinski Gives New Label to a Possibly Concurring Opinion

9th Circuit Judge Betty Fletcher Dies at 89

Why Scalia Is Traveling to Wyoming: It’s Not Just the Antelope Hunting

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