State-wide budget belt tightening in California will mean the closing of courthouses throughout the state. But the Los Angeles Times notes that Fresno County may…
Visibly angry and getting more so after learning shortly before trial that prosecutors could place a Somali piracy case defendant in international waters for only 24 to 28 minutes, a…
Justice Antonin Scalia says the Supreme Court clashes on legal questions, but there is no personal animosity. And there is no rift with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
A South Texas judge acquitted on all counts in a criminal bribery trial last year apparently is not complaining about her representation by defense lawyers Theresa Caballero and Stuart Leeds…
A retired former chief judge in suburban Chicago’s Lake County was acquitted of a drunken-driving charge at trial Monday after a lengthy litigation battle.
A convicted car burglar who last month broke into the vehicle of the California judge who had just given him a sentencing break got the maximum term this time around.
Updated: The Supreme Court’s divisions over the Obama administration’s health care law aren’t likely to last into the next term, according to justices who spoke to a legal publication.
Two judges who oversaw part of the drunken driving case against Lindsay Lohan were apparently disciplined for missteps in the case, according to a published report.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to save money by canceling next year’s conference after two U.S. senators criticized the court for holding this year’s…