Judge Sonia Sotomayor was an intense, no-nonsense prosecutor during five years spent at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, a real-world experience that isn’t shared by justices now on the U.S.…
An effort by U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent to continue collecting his federal paycheck for almost a year after he reports to prison later this month to serve a 33-month…
A New York appeals court has ordered state legislators to give judges a pay increase of about 30 percent to reflect the increased cost of living since their last raise…
A former New Jersey municipal judge who admittedly had some problems himself abused his authority by imposing harsh sanctions on others, the state supreme court held yesterday. For this and…
Critics have called Judge Sonia Sotomayor an “anti-gun radical” for joining in a federal appeals court decision holding that U.S. Supreme Court precedent does…
Two football players for a Maryland high school parlayed a chance meeting with Justice Clarence Thomas into an appearance at their high school graduation on Monday.
A federal judge sentenced to as much as 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice will resign, but his last day won’t be until…
The lawyer who founded SCOTUSblog was in big demand after the announcement that Sonia Sotomayor had been tapped as the next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The “all business” bankruptcy judge overseeing the reorganization of General Motors had little patience for a lawyer who offered a joke during a hearing yesterday.
Despite some recent media accounts that depict U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as sharp-tongued, that isn’t how the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge struck many of her…
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