A federal judge irked at grammatical and typographical errors in a motion for dismissal has blasted the Florida lawyer who filed it and ordered him to copy his client on…
In the latest blow to a controversial ex-judge who has been permanently banned from the Las Vegas bench in part because of her treatment of her staff, a former legal…
When Louis Brandeis was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916, some considered him a dangerous radical. Yet he was confirmed and spent more than two decades on the…
Corrected: A Shakespeare-quoting federal judge has ordered a feuding lawyer to take a CLE civility class and to eat a meal with the opponent he labeled an —hole during a…
The National Organization for Women is asking supporters to call or write the judge presiding over the bench trial of a state senator accused of domestic violence.
The Senate confirmed Gerard Lynch for the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first federal circuit court nominee by President Obama to win approval.
Rejecting a recommendation that a Minnesota judge should be removed from office for steering matrimonial mediation cases to his own divorce attorney, the state supreme court has suspended him for…
A Los Angeles federal judge has announced he is resigning because the stagnant salary makes it difficult to support his seven children, all under the age of 18.
A New Jersey judge has been reprimanded for jailing a traffic defendant who gave him the finger, made a raspberry sound and used a profanity during a video arraignment.
Although ongoing efforts are being made to keep the federal courts operating as efficiently as possible, congressional lawmakers still consider long-awaited judicial pay raises a priority.
Growing up in a working-class ethnic neighborhood in New York City, Michael Corriero seemed a lot likelier to wind up standing in front of a judge than sitting on the…
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