A retired Minnesota judge should be publicly reprimanded for disclosing confidential information from a sealed court file and for withdrawing from a judicial election at the last possible moment without…
A Pennsylvania lawyer who said he was pressured into participating in a $2.6 million “kids for cash” corruption scheme operated by two then-Luzerne County judges was sentenced today to 18…
A security system installed in June in one or more courthouses in Baldwin County, Ala., included a number of cameras that also recorded audio placed in high-risk areas such as…
A Texas judge who made international headlines this week after his daughter posted a disturbing video on YouTube of him beating her with a belt in 2004 will not be…
Updated: It was chaos Wednesday at a Texas courthouse after the daughter of an Aransas County judge posted a disturbing video on YouTube of her father beating her back in…
The chief judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sued a prominent Philadelphia law firm and a former lawyer there for malpractice, contending that the state paid millions more than…
An Ohio judge has sued a lawyer and two of the attorney’s clients for defamation, contending also that one of the clients and the attorney violated the terms of a…
A disturbing video posted on YouTube showing a Texas judge beating his then-teenage daughter with a belt and cursing at her years ago has gone viral, reportedly prompting multiple investigations…
Reduced foreclosure fees, following a national slowdown in filings as banks deal with robo-signing concerns and other issues, have hit the Florida courts hard.
Federal authorities in Georgia have arrested four men they say are involved in an alleged fringe militia plot targeting the U.S. Department of Justice, federal judges and the Internal Revenue…
A court-appointed New Jersey guardianship lawyer allegedly stole some $800,000 from her wards over a six-year period, with the help of her former paralegal.
Lawyers in Wisconsin who have been complaining that appellate courts shouldn’t be summarily sanctioning them over their briefs have a point, the state’s top court indicated in a ruling today.