The American Bar Association and its allies, in their efforts to stem the tide of funding cuts that are sweeping over state courts across the country, face a serious challenge…
It is a given that democracy is necessarily messy, and perhaps also more interesting at just such times. Things certainly sounded that way Friday afternoon at the ABA Annual Meeting…
The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered the removal of a Detroit-area judge who was found guilty in April of judicial misconduct including misappropriating public funds intended for crime victims, knowingly…
The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld a life sentence without parole for a teenager who strangled his little brother, dumped the boy’s body in a park and went on with…
A visibly agitated Virginia man facing a capital triple homicide case was unrestrained Wednesday at a competency hearing, as defense counsel requested.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the Bleacher Creatures in the stands during the first inning of the New York Yankees game against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.
A former North Carolina judge tearfully took a misdemeanor plea Monday in a controversial case involving altered conviction dates in drunk-driving cases heard before other judges.
A noncontroversial nominee to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won’t get a Senate vote after a failed effort to stop a Republican filibuster.
A 53-year-old lawyer whose finances apparently took a nosedive in recent years committed suicide in an Arizona court last month by swallowing a cyanide pill, immediately after a Maricopa County…
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