Voters sent two Democrats to the West Virginia Supreme Court yesterday after a controversial justice accused of vacationing with a litigant was defeated in the primary.
Mississippi Chief Justice Jim Smith and two other incumbents on the state’s high court lost election battles yesterday in a race that included a negative baby-killer ad and debates over…
Dueling television ads criticizing two candidates vying for a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court are creating an “orgy of negativity,” according to the executive director of the Justice at…
Pima County, Ariz., Superior Court Judge Michael Miller didn’t set out to get an advanced education in the fields of science, medicine and technology. But when the opportunity to do…
Expect significant changes in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence if John McCain is elected the nation’s next president, an American University law professor says.
Herman Schwartz, of the university’s Washington College…
Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline has found that a county judge routinely belittled her staff, used court personnel to clean her home and created a “war”-like atmosphere with other judges.
Unhappy that a female lawyer had been appointed to represent him in an appeal, a South Carolina inmate wrote to various officials seeking to have a different attorney appointed to…
A senior judge in Indiana’s LaPorte County is facing an ethics charge that claims he slashed a defendant’s drug sentence in exchange for a $100,000 donation to court programs.
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