A federal appeals court has delayed the release of video recordings of last year’s trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Senate leaders have agreed to vote on 10 pending federal judicial nominees in the next two weeks, more than twice its average monthly rate for the year so far.
A woman who unsuccessfully sued her employer for a rape a jury concluded never occurred must pay the company’s court costs but not its attorney fees, a judge has held.
Exercising its extraordinary jurisdictional powers, as it was urged to do in a petition by a nonprofit Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday appointed a judge…
In a highly unusual trial development, a Michigan defense attorney is personally facing a potential criminal contempt charge at the same time that he attempts to defend his client in…
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks doesn’t plan to change his writing style, despite an email chastising his “demeaning and gratuitous” rhetoric from the chief judge of the appeals court that…
After only part of a series of planned financial reform laws was enacted by lawmakers in California, state-court judges wound up with the power to oversee their own benefits.
The head of the police department in Sao Goncalo, Brazil, has been arrested along with seven officers in connection with the murder last month of a judge, the Sep 27, 2011 9:01 PM CDT
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