The corruption allegations concerning judges and a court administrator in Luzerne County, Pa., aren’t letting up. The latest involves claims of a possible fixed case and a reputed mobster.
After serving three months for a 1991 courtroom attack in which he held a gun to the head of a defense attorney representing Rockwell International Corp. in a worker’s compensation…
As President Barack Obama today announced a $75 billion federal mortgage bailout plan intended to help up to 9 million homeowners avert foreclosure, courts are already busy dealing with a…
A federal judge facing unprecedented criminal sexual abuse charges was simply being a gentleman when he lied, in an earlier judicial investigation, about what he now describes as an affair,…
A legal publication in Massachusetts has made headlines by providing a forum in which lawyers can anonymously rate the judges in front of whom they regularly appear.
Andrew Frey will appear before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3 for his 65th oral argument there. He will be advancing the politically incorrect side of a case about…
The administrator of a troubled Pennsylvania court that has recently seen two top judges plead guilty to criminal charges himself pleaded guilty today in federal court in Scranton to embezzling…
In a controversial decision in 2007, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to delay the court’s scheduled closing by 20 minutes so that a last-minute…
A man convicted of killing a policeman has endorsed a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a letter that praises the lawyer’s work defending him 15 years ago.
Massive state budget shortfalls threaten the ability of courts to continue to operate, Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, who is president of the Conference of Chief Justices, told the…
In the latest chapter of a $26.5 million Hurricane Katrina legal-fees dispute that led to the downfall of former tort king Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and other professionals, a disbarred lawyer…
The federal judiciary has put together a wish list of issues on which it hopes to get action from the new Congress and the new presidential administration. But the judiciary’s…
Two Pennsylvania judges accused by federal prosecutors of accepting $2.6 million in kickbacks to jail juveniles in privately owned detention facilities are now being sued for damages.
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