The Florida Supreme Court has adopted a new rule that prohibits individual judges from lobbying lawmakers without prior approval by the court and the various administrative committees that oversee the…
A federal judge ruled Friday that Orlando, Fla., police violated a protester’s free speech rights when they arrested him for writing political messages in chalk on the plaza in front…
Before a judge was stabbed and a sheriff’s deputy was shot at a Washington state courthouse last month, superior court judges in Grays Harbor County had sued over what they…
Seth Uphoff’s experience as a former defensive back for the Eureka College football team came in handy on Thursday when a convicted defendant was sentenced to two years in a…
Seeking to resolve repetitive problems with nuisance crimes on the Las Vegas Strip, city and Clark County leaders are considering a proposal to create a night court to provide swift…
An Alabama judge says it isn’t unusual for him to insist that defendants show respect for the people’s courtroom by sentencing those who wear saggy pants to jail time for…
In court on Tuesday to enter a plea in a receiving stolen property case, an Alabama man found that his saggy blue jeans prevented forward progress in the Autauga County…
An en banc federal appeals court has tossed part of the criminal case against an executive headhunter accused of accessing a confidential database at his prior employer.
The Lochner decision has become an epithet used by both liberals and conservatives, according to George Mason University law professor David Bernstein.
In what is being billed as the first time a television camera has ever been permitted to film a criminal sentencing in the United Kingdom, broadcaster STV will be allowed…
A three-member disciplinary panel of the Arizona Supreme Court disbarred a controversial former Maricopa County Attorney and one of his former deputies and suspended another former deputy county attorney for…