A lawyer trying to help his client with a perplexing New Jersey requirement for a judge’s signature wasn’t able to find a willing jurist until he visited the 9th U.S.…
As a retrial looms in the case of a former sheriff’s deputy facing child-abuse charges in Virginia, a hearing yesterday took an unexpected and unusual turn.
A longtime federal judge in Memphis, Tenn., breezed through the U.S. Senate confirmation process today with bipartisan support for a seat on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
An attorney whose attendance record as a Pennsylvania magisterial district judge was “beyond egregious” violated both the rules for district judges and the state constitution, the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial…
It didn’t take long for another jurist to top a mandatory “kindergarten party” invitation made by a federal judge in Texas to apparently squabbling attorneys.
In the first settlement of some $125 million in claims made by Maricopa County, Ariz., officials who say they suffered damages because of alleged off-the-rails prosecution and litigation by Sheriff…
Faced with the potential expense and inconvenience of having to look far afield for potential jurors unfamiliar with a high-profile child-murder case, a Pennsylvania judge came up with an innovative…
Angry relatives created an uproar in an Indiana courtroom today, after the judge said another murder trial would be scheduled for the defendant following a mistrial yesterday.
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