Family Law

Justice Gorsuch writes children’s book about ‘Heroes of 1776’

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is co-authoring a children’s book about heroes of the American Revolution and stories behind the Declaration of Independence.

Dec 4, 2025 12:37 PM CST

Judge violated ethics rules for ordering teens’ detention but not for legislative and Tea Party remarks, court finds

An Ohio judge has been suspended for ordering the detention of two teenagers in the juvenile lockup for a weekend after they repeatedly refused to attend visitation with their father.

Dec 3, 2025 9:50 AM CST

What happens when 2 USC Gould Law professors divorce? The university gets sued

Professor Camille Gear Rich is suing the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, stating that the administration ignored her Title IX complaints that professor Stephen M. Rich, her ex-husband, was having an affair with a student. She also alleges the school later denied her disability accommodations in retaliation.

Dec 2, 2025 1:36 PM CST

Supreme Court sympathetic to antiabortion center in fight over donor names

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin (D) issued a subpoena in 2023—part of an investigation into whether a chain of faith-based, antiabortion pregnancy centers were deceiving clients and donors by falsely suggesting they offered abortion referrals.

Dec 2, 2025 12:46 PM CST

Judge accused of hitting prosecutor is suspended without pay

A judge in Brown County, Texas, has been suspended without pay after his indictment stemming partly from allegations that he hit a prosecutor and tried to hinder an arrest by failing to sign an arrest warrant.

Dec 2, 2025 11:50 AM CST

Supreme Court tells state to reconsider screening child victim from defendant

In 2021, a Mississippi jury found Jeffrey Clyde Pitts guilty of sexually abusing his 4-year-old daughter. When the girl testified against her father in court, a screen was placed between her and Pitts to protect her from trauma.

Nov 25, 2025 10:30 AM CST

New Jersey’s top court is first to reject evidence of shaken baby syndrome as unreliable

Testimony that merely shaking a baby can produce internal bleeding near the brain and in the retina is too unreliable for admission in criminal cases of child abuse, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in a 6-1 decision last week.

Nov 25, 2025 9:23 AM CST

Court orders exes to bid for custody of Tucker the goldendoodle

It took a ruling from one of the country’s top business courts last week to settle a yearslong dispute between a former Delaware couple: Who gets to keep Tucker, the pair’s adorable goldendoodle, after their breakup?

Nov 18, 2025 1:16 PM CST

Lawyer ends sexual harassment and retaliation suit against Polsinelli, 2 partners after claims allowed

A former Polsinelli partner who claims the law firm fired her after she complained about sexual harassment has filed a joint notice with the defendants stating that she is dismissing her federal lawsuit with prejudice.

Nov 11, 2025 9:20 AM CST

Over $200M verdict overturned in ‘Maya’ hospitalization case chronicled in Netflix documentary

A trial judge made errors requiring a new trial in a case stemming from a woman’s suicide after her 10-year-old daughter was removed from her care and held at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, a Florida appeals court ruled last week.

Nov 3, 2025 11:05 AM CST

Florida cases seeking death penalty for child sex abuse could test precedent in Supreme Court

Two Florida prosecutions could test the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in 2008 that held that the death penalty for child rape is unconstitutional.

Oct 30, 2025 10:01 AM CDT

Former BigLaw partner is accused of throwing his wife to her death from 24th floor stairwell

A former Duane Morris tax partner is accused in a criminal complaint of murdering his wife in his Chicago condo building by throwing her over a railing from a 24th floor stairwell.

Oct 28, 2025 10:17 AM CDT

Ex-BigLaw partner was ‘brute’ and ‘monster’ who battered his wife, her mother says at his sentencing

A former Duane Morris partner whose wife was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell in his Chicago condo building was sentenced to 93 days in jail and two years of probation Monday in a case stemming from domestic abuse in two prior incidents at her Michigan home.

Oct 21, 2025 10:57 AM CDT

Jeffrey Epstein had dinners with top criminal prosecutor following favorable deal, documents show

The former criminal division chief in the U.S. attorney’s office who offered a favorable plea deal to multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein had appointments, phone calls and dinners with the money manager beginning four years after he left his post, according to documents reviewed by the Miami Herald.

Oct 20, 2025 11:52 AM CDT

Supreme Court to hear challenge to law barring drug users from guns

The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether a federal law that bars habitual users of illegal drugs from possessing guns violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Oct 20, 2025 11:02 AM CDT