If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed, she would be the first known member of the U.S. Supreme Court with Type 1 diabetes, but the disease isn’t expected to interfere with…
The judicial council for the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt a blow to Judge Samuel Kent’s apparent efforts to collect retirement pay after his admission…
Updated: Judge Sonia Sotomayor makes about $180,000 a year, but she reported little in the way of assets on her financial disclosure report for 2007. That has prompted some comment…
A new study of 2,000 oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court has found that the relative number of questions posed by the justices is a good predictor of which…
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor forced a Washington, D.C., law firm to apologize for a partner’s questions during a recruiting dinner in her third…
Practicing intellectual property law at Pavia & Harcourt in the 1980s and 1990s offered U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor an early opportunity to demonstrate her legal eagle potential.
“Ideologues” are likely to advance four lines of attack against federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor when confirmation hearings are held, likely in the third week of July, according to a…
Updated: President Obama has announced the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David H.…
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