To avoid actual or perceived connections to Pennsylvania State University, its football team or the Second Mile charity founded by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, all five of Centre…
A judge in Sri Lanka expressed shock over the rowdy behavior of some lawyers in a packed courtroom last week after an unpopular ruling, saying that their proper remedy was…
A federal appeals court once known for its conservative opinions has undergone a marked change since five of President Obama’s judicial nominees won confirmation.
A bankruptcy judge violated the ethics code when he failed to resign from a Nashville, Tenn., country club that had no blacks or women as voting members, according to the…
Despite a special prosecutor’s finding that a federal prosecution of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was “permeated” by the government’s concealment of evidence favorable to the defense, no criminal contempt…
A longtime town justice in upstate New York held court in his chambers for seven years, even after his clerks told him he was supposed to use the courtroom and…
A Washington attorney literally acting as his own jailhouse lawyer has struck a deal with prosecutors after allegedly setting fire to his own home earlier this year and violating a…
A lawyer for a death row inmate argued before the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday that the conviction should be overturned because one juror was tweeting during the trial and…
Supporters of a Michigan mom scolded by a Paw Paw district judge after she breastfed her son in the courtroom are planning a “nurse-in” outside the Van Buren County courthouse…
Judge Richard Posner admits he was a bit of a teacher’s pet when he was a kid. He does recall a detention—based on false accusations, he says—and he also remembers…
The Minnesota Supreme Court has suspended a Hennepin County judge for six months without pay because she lived full-time in a lake home outside her district in the summer of…
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to allow cameras to broadcast oral arguments in March when the justices consider the fate of the Obama administration’s health care law.
Facing a legal ethics case over his role in a controversial $48.8 million “Taj Mahal” court construction project and other claimed misconduct, a Florida appellate judge has tendered his resignation.
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