In a highly unusual trial development, a Michigan defense attorney is personally facing a potential criminal contempt charge at the same time that he attempts to defend his client in…
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks doesn’t plan to change his writing style, despite an email chastising his “demeaning and gratuitous” rhetoric from the chief judge of the appeals court that…
After only part of a series of planned financial reform laws was enacted by lawmakers in California, state-court judges wound up with the power to oversee their own benefits.
The head of the police department in Sao Goncalo, Brazil, has been arrested along with seven officers in connection with the murder last month of a judge, the Sep 27, 2011 9:01 PM CDT
A former Illinois appeals judge is complaining that police aren’t doing enough to solve a series of burglaries at his family farm in Collinsville in which thieves made off with…
Unions initially criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision finding that corporations have a First Amendment right to expressly support political candidates for Congress and the White House.
A Denver judge accused of leaving her 6-year-old granddaughter in the car while she shopped at Sam’s Club will be able to win dismissal of her case under a six-month…
How long should one judge monopolize oral arguments? Seven minutes is too long for Chief Judge Edith Jones of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The growing financial crisis facing state court systems has coincided with the economic doldrums that have existed in the United States since at least 2008. But at least one expert…
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