An FBI report says plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs agreed to pay two associates $500,000 to discourage Mississippi’s attorney general from indicting State Farm Insurance Co.
The widow of a Connecticut judge who claims her husband died from overwork can’t sue the state under a special statute that extended the time limit for her to file…
In 2005, Sen. John McCain helped pave the way for confirmation of two U.S. Supreme Court justices and other conservative judges by helping stop a vote on whether to ban…
After parliamentary elections that appear likely to result in the ouster of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, there have been renewed calls for the reinstatement of dozens of appellate judges he…
Like too many other immigrants, Garfield Livern St. Valentine Aris was not well-served by a number of lawyers, the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says in…
A former inmate is leading a campaign against the judicial nomination of Gustavus Puryear, the chief lawyer for the private prison company that incarcerated him for six years.
Federal authorities are investigating whether former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was involved in an alleged conspiracy to influence a Mississippi judge to deliver a favorable ruling on behalf of…
A state commission on judicial conduct has recommended removal from office for a New York municipal jurist who jailed 46 people in what it terms “two hours of inexplicable madness”…
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