An unusual decision by a federal magistrate judge to require a so-called predictive coding protocol for automated e-discovery in an employment discrimination class action is both good news and bad…
A Pennsylvania district court judge who allegedly avoided paying $268.50 in parking tickets by dismissing the cases in 2010 and 2011 has been criminally charged and put on paid leave.
A building housing a Chinese restaurant in Albany, N.Y., may soon be sporting a plaque noting a famous onetime tenant: the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.
Justice Antonin Scalia gave some advice to law students at the University of Chicago on Monday involving work-life balance and the geographic means to achieve it.
A federal judge whose writing attracted a newspaper’s attention earlier this year is back in the news again, this time for taking a swipe at his critics.
An appellate judge in Afghanistan and his 8-year-old daughter or niece were shot and killed Saturday or Sunday. According to a government spokesman, the attack occurred when their vehicle was…
A Texas judge is recommending that a special court of inquiry consider allegations that a former prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence, contributing to a wrongful murder conviction.
Updated: A Spanish judge famous for his indictments of notorious international wrongdoers has lost his judgeship, but he still has the support of thousands of people who marched in his…
The U.S. Supreme Court may have moved too quickly when it found a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on the constitutionality of outgoing former Gov. Haley Barbour’s mass pardon of state prison inmates.
A former state trooper who is now a Texas judge was arrested on a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge on Monday evening in a hotel room in College Station.
A Michigan judge, booted off the bench last month by the state supreme court for a slew of transgressions, was charged this week with four felonies for some of those…