What did the public take from recent U.S. Supreme Court arguments regarding same-sex marriage? Images of people standing around outside–and that’s exactly why the justices should allow cameras in the…
Arrested nearly two years ago in the clerk’s office when he went to file a lawsuit at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a pro se plaintiff has now…
Security concerns remain elevated as authorities search for those responsible for the slayings of Kaufman County’s District Attorney, his wife and another prosecutor in the office located outside of Dallas.
The governor of Texas vowed at a press conference today that the state would hunt down and punish those responsible for slaying two prosecutors within a two-month period and announced…
A federal judge who sent an email containing a racist joke about President Barack Obama to several people last year while serving as chief judge for the District of Montana…
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…
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