Justice Elena Kagan told a group of women judges on Friday that the U.S. Supreme Court is working hard, even though the justices are hearing fewer cases than in the…
Karen Williams was chief judge of a federal appeals court and a potential Supreme Court nominee when her family noticed some changes in her personality.
Updated: A judge was stabbed and a sheriff’s deputy was shot around noon today in the Grays Harbor County Courthouse in Washington state, about 90 miles from Seattle.
A North Carolina judge who handled at least 82 traffic tickets outside the normal legal process—and probably many more, the state supreme court said—has been suspended without pay for 75…
Houston criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett announced Sunday at Defending People that he is running for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 7 on the…
Justice Antonin Scalia encountered protesters in Connecticut on Thursday when he gave a speech for Wesleyan University’s annual Hugo Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression.
Saying that an Ohio divorce lawyer had engaged in “a course of conduct that was replete with dishonest, deceptive, and disrespectful acts” as a practitioner, the state supreme court today…
A man firing a gun into the air in a plaza outside the Tulsa County Courthouse on Wednesday was shot and wounded by deputies after he pointed the firearm at…
Do clothes make the person? A study looking at an aspect of that question has found that test subjects wearing white lab coats performed better on tests requiring close attention.
A report unveiled Monday based on a massive new interactive database that looks at criminal sentences rendered judge-by-judge throughout the federal judiciary quickly attracted perhaps as much criticism as praise,…
Although handcuffed and wearing leg irons, a Massachusetts criminal defendant reportedly swung his arms and knocked a court officer down on Monday afternoon as he was being led from Plymouth…
A federal judge in Montana who self-reported himself to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a potential legal ethics review after admittedly sending a racist email…