A study of the 1,194 rulings handed down by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while Judge Sonia Sotomayor served aimed to show where the U.S. Supreme Court nominee…
A Houma, La., judge has been suspended over comments he made at a hearing in which a woman was seeking a temporary restraining order against her husband, including calling her…
Even though Al Franken has been a U.S. senator and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for barely a day, he’s only days away from helping to run hearings…
New York University law professor Arthur Miller has offered a possible explanation for a controversial short opinion joined by Judge Sonia Sotomayor in which the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of…
Al Franken, who was sworn in this morning as the junior senator from Minnesota, will be replacing Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, who is a lawyer, on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled last week that Gov. Charlie Crist had no consitutional authority to refuse to seat a new judge because he only had white nominees to choose…
The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has found Sonia Sotomayor well-qualified for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote was unanimous.
A federal judge in Los Angeles reportedly has said he intends to acquit a Missouri mother accused of helping to drive a neighboring teen to suicide by participating in a…
Stepping up to the plate to deal with an electronic communications issue that has plagued courts throughout the country recently, the Michigan Supreme Court has issued a new rule requiring…
A Pennsylvania lawyer initially portrayed by his counsel as a victim has now pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to a $2.5 million juvenile detention judicial…
A federal judicial council has admonished Judge Alex Kozinski for keeping sexually explicit materials on a personal website, concluding an ethics investigation spurred by a June 2008 Los Angeles Times…
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