A federal appeals court is citing a trial judge’s apparent dislike of Facebook in a decision to vacate an eight-year sentence for a defendant accused of producing child pornography.
A defendant who apparently didn’t get the memo about not using cellphones in court was taken into custody Wednesday at a suburban Chicago courthouse after allegedly snapping photos of the…
Updated: Police have arrested a Mississippi man suspected of sending letters containing possible ricin to the president, as well as a senator and justice official in Mississippi.
A group of employment lawyers is seeking a federal investigation of the governor of Maine, citing news reports that he and other officials have pressured hearing officers to rule for…
Updated: The wife of a fired justice of the peace in Texas has confessed to plotting the killings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, and another prosecutor…
All circuit and district court buildings in a county that is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area were closed Tuesday, as sheriff’s officers in Carroll County, Md., investigated a bomb…
Dorothy Canfield, 84, had been facing merely a theft case, accused of bilking clients by posing as an immigration lawyer, when she is in fact not an attorney.
In Chicago on Monday, security guards at the criminal courthouse at 26th Street and California Avenue, billed as the nation’s busiest, were implementing a new policy against cellphones and other…
When a cellphone rang Friday during a prosecutor’s closing argument in a domestic violence trial, a Michigan judge didn’t have to look far to find the culprit.
A Michigan family court judge accused of signing her own lawyer’s name, without permission, on a personal divorce filing and lying under oath is fighting a recommendation by the state…
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is introducing legislation to increase protections for judges and prosecutors in part by authorizing them to carry guns in federal facilities.
Sri Srinivasan, President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, encountered no opposition before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
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