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…
A former New York judge from Albany County has been convicted of trying to shake down lawyers to pay for his legal bills in a judicial conduct investigation.
Developing: A 17-year Texas judge who formerly worked as an assistant Harris County attorney has been indicted on a charge of misdemeanor official oppression.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter has donated his personal and professional papers to the New Hampshire Historical Society but placed a 50-year ban on public access to…
The now-former Washington, D.C., administrative law judge who made international headlines after he filed a $54 million lawsuit against his dry cleaner over a missing pair of trousers is back…
A New Jersey solo practitioner who tried to shift blame to a co-defendant for filing false immigration forms was properly sentenced to more prison time than called for in a…
A Michigan woman and an Islamic civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit against a Detroit judge today, contending that he insisted she remove her hijab, a religious head covering,…
The federal judge who wanted to know more about why shareholders weren’t told of a plan to pay bonuses to Merrill Lynch executives isn’t satisfied with the answers.
CIA medical personnel later objected to a description of the safety of waterboarding contained in a report sent to Justice Department lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
After a federal judge in Scranton refused to reconsider his earlier decision to reject their guilty pleas, two former Luzerne County, Pa., judges withdrew them today.
A credulous paralegal is facing a potential two-and-a-half-year federal prison term after apparently being duped by a convicted child molester into participating in a bizarre alleged civil litigation scheme. Its…
What do Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor have in common with the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the general counsel of Pfizer?
Two former Pennsylvania jurists whose conditional guilty pleas to corruption charges and agreed 87-month prison term were nixed by a federal judge late last month are now asking…
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