A Florida judge accused of telling a bank lawyer he couldn’t sit in his office “smoking his Cohiba cigars and drinking his lattes” while the court does it work has…
A law requiring taxation of personal phone calls made on employer-provided cell phones has caused a big administrative headache for one California court.
Potential jurors are increasingly citing fears that jury service could cause financial hardship, causing some court administrators to increase the number of people called to serve.
Justice John Paul Stevens has so far hired only one law clerk for 2010, leading to speculation that he will announce his retirement at the end of the coming term.
A municipal court judge in Canton, Ohio, told a bailiff to get the duct tape—and use it to silence an argumentative defendant at a preliminary hearing in a shoplifting case…
A federal judge has overturned the misdemeanor conviction of a Missouri mother accused of helping to drive a neighboring teen to suicide by posing as a teenage boy who wooed…
A divided state retirement board voted 3-2 today to reject a former Massachusetts judge’s request for a disability pension because of diagnosed post-traumatic stress that he says is related to…
A Texas judge who made headlines yesterday after being indicted on a misdemeanor charge of official oppression is accused of soliciting a defendant in a driving-while-intoxicated case for…
A University of Chicago law professor who has questioned whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices are influenced by their Catholic religion says Justice Antonin Scalia is upset by the…
Florida’s wealthiest judge attributes her good fortune to a conservative spending style and a husband who is an admiralty partner in a Palm Beach law firm. And the state’s second…
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