Reversing the drunken-driving conviction of a woman who wasn’t allowed to argue at trial that she had to flee a dangerous bar fight, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled that…
A juror caused consternation by sending a note to the judge in a fatal New York child-abuse case, asking for the name and number of the “cutie” assistant district attorney–and…
Although every situation must be considered based on its own individual facts, at least one retired former judge in Massachusetts will still be expected to continue paying his wife $42,000…
Contending that a top Texas appellate judge misled a federal appeals court that dismissed a wrongful death claim by the wife and daughter of an executed inmate, a civil rights…
An undercover journalist researching the “shadowy underworld” of ghostwritten term papers says a senior staff attorney with the Massachusetts Appeals Court offered to write a term paper on physician-assisted suicide…
Because of questionable conduct of the Luzerne County judges who oversaw the case, a Pennsylvania newspaper must get a new trial in a defamation lawsuit that resulted in a $3.5…
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia questioned yesterday whether courts should be evaluating mutual fund fees when investors can make their own assessments.
A federal appeals court has ruled a Canadian engineer can’t sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other government officials for transferring him to Syria in 2002, where he claims…
Explaining that three jurors who earlier raised questions about the not-guilty verdict in a criminal case against a former Alabama judge have backed down, the Mobile County…
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is the 10th most influential person in Washington, D.C., beating out Attorney General Eric Holder, who comes in at No. 13.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court today issued an order vacating all juvenile rulings between 2003 and 2008 by former Luzerne County President Judge Mark Ciavarella.
Weighing in on the side of his client’s former wife and in-laws, a criminal defense lawyer who represented a man executed in a controversial Texas death-penalty case now says that…
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