The voters have already decided that embattled Las Vegas Judge Elizabeth Halverson should not remain on the bench, and now the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission…
Clean and sober for a decade, a newly elected Texas district judge says his earlier battles with cocaine and alcohol addiction will be an asset on the bench because they…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the Constitution required the recusal of a West Virginia Supreme Court justice who received more than $3 million in contributions from…
News that a New Jersey municipal judge had allegedly caused a ruckus in a go-go bar was the last straw that led to his resignation, his former assignment judge testified…
A white supremacist who is accused of posting information on the Internet soliciting harm to a federal jury foreman pleaded not guilty today in federal court in Chicago.
Updated: The group Judicial Watch has accused the chief justice of Arizona’s Supreme Court of imposing an implied ban on the term “illegal alien” and 17 other words or phrases…
The New York Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended a censure for a Manhattan trial judge who acted in a “manifestly improper” manner by presiding over two criminal cases in…
In a potential move that could change the landscape of the nation’s criminal justice system, president-elect Barack Obama reportedly has asked his advisers to put together a plan to close…
A Chicago judge who lives a few blocks from Barack Obama in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood was mugged on her front porch the evening before the election.
After six weeks of testimony, an expensive and controversial Georgia murder case against a defendant who allegedly shot to death a Fulton County judge and court reporter, among other victims,…
A retired Orange County, Calif., judge who apparently told litigants and counsel what he really thought of their case during a 2006 hearing has been reprimanded for rudeness.
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