A California lawyer is planning to appeal a $200 contempt fine imposed when frustrations over a scheduling conflict reached a boil in a Stanislaus County courtroom.
Sentenced in 2011 to 18 months of probation for making telephone threats to a corporation, a suburban Chicago man is facing new charges for allegedly making new telephone threats—this time…
In a March 4 review, a New York Times critic saw some merit in retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s latest book, Out of Order: Stories from the History of the…
Jury selection began Tuesday in the Galveston, Texas, capital murder trial for a man accused of slaying a bystander when he also shot family members outside the Jefferson County courthouse…
If Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires to allow President Obama to appoint her successor, the nominee will likely run into resistance from most Republicans.
In the wake of a weekend slaying of a Texas district attorney and his wife that has put law enforcement officials there and elsewhere on high alert, a district attorney…
A continuing investigation into the killing of the Colorado prisons superintendent is focusing on at least two questions: Whether the deceased suspect in the case, Evan Spencer Ebel, could be…
A lawyer for an embattled Michigan judge who is facing an ethics complaint has said he doesn’t believe the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission will be able to prove charges that…
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