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.
Lawyers submitting briefs to federal courts in Alabama routinely sign the documents with their Social Security numbers, one of several ways that private data is exposed in court documents, according…
The former chief federal judge in Denver announced his resignation earlier this month amid reports he asked a former prostitute to lie about paying her for…
Is there a Nightmare on Foley Square movie in the works? The New York courthouse may not be haunted, but paranormal societies and ghost trackers believe ghosts could have taken…
Regardless of who is elected president of the United States next month, George W. Bush could continue to have a significant impact on the nation for years through his selection…
A Minnesota tax protester who tried to haul the federal judge assigned to his case into “common law court” now has an extra conviction on his record as a result.
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