For the first time in a century, the ideological positions of U.S. Supreme Court justices are all linked to the parties of the presidents who appointed them.
Among a number of individuals and organizations apparently bracing for civil litigation after news that a former assistant football coach at Penn State has been charged with multiple counts of…
Updated: A woman fighting a Michigan boating ticket that had already resulted in a bench warrant says she had no choice but to take her 5-month-old with her to a…
There’s more fallout related to a viral YouTube video showing a Texas judge whipping his then-teenage daughter with a belt years ago after she allegedly illegally downloaded music and games.
Once a powerful Pennsylvania state senator who earned $100,000 a year as a lawmaker and another $1 million annually as a rainmaker for a Philadelphia law firm, Vincent Fumo was…
On the eve of Veterans Day, newspapers around the country are reporting on new courts being established to help those who served their country cope with special problems members of…
A Florida judge says he plans to schedule a contempt hearing after a lawyer handling civil litigation went with a locksmith to $1 million home in Lakeland that his client,…
A Georgia drug court judge scrutinized on the radio show This American Life has been accused in an ethics complaint of appointing her daughter as a guardian ad litem and…
It isn’t yet a done deal. But the presiding judge wants to open the doors of juvenile courtrooms in Los Angeles, holding public hearings in cases about child abuse and…
A Texas judge has granted a recusal motion by a veteran prosecutor and stepped aside from determining whether he and another senior member of the Harris County district attorney’s office…
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared unmoved by the argument that eyewitness identification evidence is so inherently unreliable it should be subjected to special judicial scrutiny.