Conservative justices dominated the first half of oral arguments Tuesday on the health care law’s insurance mandate, accounting for 75 percent of the debate, while liberals…
A Washington judge is violating state law by offering so-called pay-for-play low-cost legal services to property owners who use the auto towing company he owns, two former employees contend.
A retired chief of the Wayne County Circuit Court was appointed a special master on Wednesday and put in charge of an effort to review client files of Detroit attorney…
Attorneys defending a man accused in a death-penalty case of murdering a police officer are seeking the recusal of the Georgia judge overseeing the case, arguing that he can’t be…
A distraught litigant who held a gun to his own head in a South Florida courthouse last year before a judge talked him into giving up the weapon has been…
Pamphlets distributed by an 80-year-old retired chemistry professor outside a federal courthouse that inform passers-by about jury nullification do not represent a serious threat to the integrity of the justice…
A new law review article considers whether William H. Rehnquist was citing his own views in 1952 when he wrote a memo as a Supreme Court law clerk supporting the…
A Texas attorney has been released from jail on $1,500 bond after being charged with a misdemeanor on accusations he instigated a ruckus with a Harris County sheriff’s deputy outside…
A Canadian appellate court has rebuked a Toronto judge for dismissing the cases of a dozen people facing either conviction or sentencing because a prosecutor was a few minutes late…
Kansas City Municipal Judge Elena Franco has filed an administrative discrimination claim over a city residency probe, contending that it was conducted in retaliation for the questions she raised about…
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld a judge’s summary contempt ruling concerning a lawyer who was sentenced to 90 days after diatribing at length in court when jury selection didn’t…