A former North Carolina judge tearfully took a misdemeanor plea Monday in a controversial case involving altered conviction dates in drunk-driving cases heard before other judges.
A noncontroversial nominee to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won’t get a Senate vote after a failed effort to stop a Republican filibuster.
A 53-year-old lawyer whose finances apparently took a nosedive in recent years committed suicide in an Arizona court last month by swallowing a cyanide pill, immediately after a Maricopa County…
Updated: Following news reports Wednesday about a package of material that may have been mailed to a psychiatrist by a graduate student subsequently accused of killing 10 people during a…
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor defended Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday, saying some criticism of his vote to uphold the health care law is “unfortunate.”
Now facing a legal ethics case after briefly jailing a young attorney last year, a Michigan judge has said he was wrong to react as he did to Scott G.…
In an unusual outright rejection of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services decision about a naturalization petition, a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., last month said, in a 90-page opinion,…
Although there appears to be no clearcut prohibition against employing family members, a New Orleans inspector general is asking the Louisiana Judiciary Commission to take a look what he calls…
After blasting prosecutors in a Friday hearing, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday released a defendant in a Somali piracy case while the government appeals some of her…
An administrator for a panel hearing an ethics case against a New York City judge announced Monday that it will recommend Bronx Surrogate Judge Lee Holzman be removed due to…