A longtime Connecticut prosecutor recently fired from his $129,000-a-year job due in part to allegations that he secretly filmed women’s legs in and around the courthouse at which he then…
A retired former justice of the Montana Supreme Court is temporarily serving as a justice of the peace in Lake County, after her longtime predecessor on the Polson court seat…
Updated: A judge in Corpus Christi ordered two attorneys who were appearing before her to take ethics classes after they were reportedly seen looking through her cell phone.
For the first time—ever since Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the bench in 2010—there is no one sitting on the nation’s highest court with active, wartime military experience.
A West Virginia family court judge who became widely known after a YouTube video of his angry comments from the bench to a matrimonial party went viral is now reportedly…
The chief judge for the U.S. District Court of Oregon, used some opinion space to criticize higher education, especially law schools, for saddling graduates with oppressive debt.
A county in southwestern Idaho has approved a preliminary budget that includes the hiring of a full-time lawyer to aid those filing pro se civil cases.
Ruling in the case of a judge facing an ethics investigation, Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled that judges’ thought processes and deliberations are protected from disclosure.
Seattle lawyer Bruce Danielson managed to win 42 percent of the vote this week in a race for the Washington Supreme Court, even though he didn’t campaign or raise money.
A longtime Connecticut prosecutor accused of creating a hostile work environment for female colleagues and court workers by secretly videotaping their legs with a “spy pen” in and around court…
Corrected: A Tennessee judge, the subject of television news broadcasts that the judge said suggested he may have lied to the Justice Department in regards to a Mental Health Court…
A coalition of public interest groups and two law professors are supporting a call for en banc review of sanctions imposed on an Arizona pro bono attorney in a blistering…
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