A federal appeals court has affirmed the life sentences given to seven participants in an international child pornography trafficking ring, but it has vacated a $3.3 million restitution award against…
The ABA House of Delegates has approved a resolution that affirms the power of federal magistrate judges to conduct proceedings in civil matters with the consent of the parties.
The ABA House of Delegates has approved a resolution supporting the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act governing the authentication and preservation of laws, court decisions and other legal materials published…
The ABA House of Delegates has adopted new standards for court interpreter services and approved a resolution urging adequate funding to implement them.
Therapeutic courts such as drug and domestic violence courts are effectively off limits to noncitizens, partly because the programs often require a conditional guilty plea that could result in deportation.
ABA President Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III has focused on state court funding problems throughout his presidency, and he continued to hammer home his points during a meeting of the…
Whether they like it or not, leaders of the judiciary must be willing to play politics in efforts to preserve funding for their state and local court systems.
A Mississippi judge has jailed a Rankin County lawyer for contempt, saying he will stay there until he deposits guardianship funds into a court registry and provides a complete accounting…
Local counsel beat the rap. But in an en banc ruling today, the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that that two other lawyers involved in…
A judge has ordered the L.A. County Juvenile Court to be open to regular media coverage to boost transparency and shed greater light on problems that have festered outside the…