The federal judge overseeing the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens refused to dismiss a juror yesterday despite a note from the foreman that called her “rude, disrespectful and unreasonable.”
Two Miami-area judges involved in a dispute over office equipment earlier this month were asked by the Dade County chief judge to leave the courthouse and have no further contact.
A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice accused in an ethics complaint of misrepresenting facts in a campaign ad says the allegations are “unfortunate” and an attempt to politicize the election after…
Facing multiple misconduct complaints, U.S. District Judge Edward W. Nottingham, chief of the federal court in Colorado, has resigned, effective Oct. 29.
Most potential voters support judicial elections for state court judges, despite qualms about influence by special interest groups making campaign donations, according to a Harris Poll conducted with input from…
An Ohio judge’s complaint about false statements in his election opponent’s automated “robocalls” to potential voters has advanced to the state’s election commission.
A federal judge in Denver is considering resignation after a former prostitute filed a new ethics complaint against him that contends he asked her to lie about paying her for…
The chief judge of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blasted pro bono work as “anti-social” and “self-serving” at a Federalist Society meeting this week.
It reads like a chapter from a hard-boiled detective novel: Narcotics officer Sean Devlin is working undercover in a neighborhood “tough as a three-dollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on…
The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to decide this week whether the Constitution required the recusal of a West Virginia Supreme Court justice who received more than $3 million in…
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