A suspended Michigan judge wearily spent hours on the witness stand today during a legal ethics trial, answering questions about hundreds of checks showing questionable expenditures ranging from “independent contractor”…
The Louisiana Supreme Court has censured a state-court judge for using the power and prestige of his office to help a niece get a protective order, from another judge, against…
A beleaguered Tennessee judge is facing an ethics complaint alleging he kept money he collected for a Ten Commandments display and billed the state for attorney work in cases he…
An unemployed man admittedly wasn’t paying attention when an Indiana judge last month told a pool of potential jurors that they had to return to Lake County Superior Court after…
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a motion for oral argument time by a political advocacy group that argued Justice Elena Kagan should be disqualified from the constitutional challenge to…
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman has decided there was no need to recuse himself in a controversial 4-3 ruling last year upholding an anti-union law, even though a law…
Marking the two-year anniversary of a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision that opened the door to so-called Super PACs, former Justice John Paul Stevens appeared last night on comedian Stephen…
Justice Antonin Scalia avoided a reporter’s question on health care issues on Thursday after a speech in which he criticized Roe v. Wade and the undue burden standard.
A federal judge in New York has upheld a decision by the General Services Administration to deny a permit for a protest today outside the federal courthouse on Pearl Street…
The law firm Jacoby & Meyers is attacking the “blunderbuss of procedural arguments” raised by defendants seeking to uphold a ban on outside ownership of law firms in New York…