Saying that some meaningful sanction was required for a clear-cut violation of settled law requiring pro hac vice admission before an out-of-state lawyer can take a deposition in a Delaware…
After a local newspaper reporter told him last week that he had an unpaid $50 parking ticket from 12 years previously in Flint district court, a Michigan judge immediately anted…
A special prosecutor for the Wisconsin Judicial Commission is recommending discipline for a justice for his behavior in two separate conflicts with his colleagues, including one in which he is…
A federal appeals judge is taking both liberals and conservatives to task for pushing constitutional theories that weaken Congress and the nation’s system of self-governance.
There will be no cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court later this month during arguments over President Barack Obama’s controversial health-care initiative.
Corrected: A Texas lawyer who was parked in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse yesterday around 11:15 a.m. not only witnessed a fatal shooting but, he says, came close to…
One person was killed and at least three others, including a suspect now in custody, were injured today when a gunman opened fire at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont,…
A former Alabama chief justice is staging a comeback after his ouster almost a decade ago for his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building.
A Washington state judge warned in a 2007 letter that a man arrested last week in an attack on another judge and a sheriff’s deputy “could become a threat.”
A prominent lawyer in Pennsylvania is reportedly under investigation for running an alleged Ponzi scheme that victimized possibly dozens of people after his son, a Luzerne County judge, told authorities…
A federal appeals court has reversed an employment verdict in an opinion that blames “vague judicial terminology” for adding confusion to workplace bias cases.
Updated: After an altercation over a set of keys last week at a security checkpoint of a building housing numerous courtrooms, a Chicago judge has been removed from the bench…