In a verdict that is likely to strip a suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge of her seat on the state’s top court and her pension, a Pittsburgh jury on Thursday…
Feb 21, 2013 8:18 PM CST
Surveillance footage obtained by the News Journal shows a man who, moments later, shot and killed two women at the county courthouse in Wilmington, Del., walking with…
Feb 21, 2013 7:35 PM CST
Fatal shootings at or near courthouses, law offices and an elementary school throughout the country in recent weeks and months—as well as a…
Feb 21, 2013 7:23 PM CST
About seven years have passed since Justice Clarence Thomas has posed a question in oral arguments, though he did recently make a rare remarkFeb 19, 2013 1:14 PM CST
Wisconsin Justice Patience Roggensack faces a contested primary election on Tuesday, less than a week after she was accused by a colleague of being in denial about court dysfunction.
Justice…
Feb 19, 2013 11:30 AM CST
Black men in prison on average are given sentences nearly 20 percent longer than those served by white men for similar crimes, new sentencing data shows.
The data is contained…
Feb 15, 2013 7:22 PM CST
A federal appeals court affirmed a more than five-year prison sentence for a former Cleveland judge who fixed foreclosure cases with improper rulings requested by a local politico who had…
Feb 15, 2013 5:28 PM CST
A Utah couple have given up their fight for custody of the 21-month-old girl they adopted at birth.
Jared and Kristi Frei say the ongoing legal battle over custody isn’t…
Feb 15, 2013 4:13 PM CST
Justice Sonia Sotomayor endorsed cameras in the Supreme Court when questioned at her confirmation hearings in 2009.
Sotomayor said she had “positive experiences” with cameras during federal appeals court arguments…
Feb 14, 2013 5:27 PM CST
A defense lawyer for suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin got a rebuke from the judge overseeing her political corruption case this week over a comment made after…
Feb 14, 2013 4:44 PM CST
It’s no secret that Justice Antonin Scalia sees no reason to attend the State of the Union address. He hasn’t attended for 16 years.
This year, Scalia explained his decision…
Feb 14, 2013 2:11 PM CST
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A South Carolina man has been charged with shooting and wounding a young mother and her stepfather outside a courthouse in Chesterfield County on Wednesday.
Police say 57-year-old Curtis Gorny…
Feb 14, 2013 12:23 PM CST
A manhunt for a former Los Angeles police officer that has been ongoing for over a week apparently ended Tuesday night in a fiery blaze after authorities began using a…
Feb 13, 2013 6:04 PM CST
Updated: A Michigan judge has ordered a lawyer to take down Facebook posts concerning a settlement by McDonald’s concerning its halal food offerings.
The order also required Dearborn attorney Majed…
Feb 13, 2013 4:23 PM CST
A California judge has reduced punishments for five inmates convicted of relatively minor crimes.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan is responsible for reconsidering the life prison…
Feb 13, 2013 4:00 PM CST