Lawyers who obtained a class-action settlement valued at more than $3.8 million in a Prius headlight suit won’t get anywhere near the $4.7 million they requested in attorney fees, according…
Supreme Court clerks use email to talk to each other, but the justices prefer to communicate with their colleagues by hand-delivered memos, according to Justice Elena Kagan.
A special prosecutor in a judicial bribery case is seeking to disqualify New Mexico Chief Justice Charles Daniels from an appeal partly because of an overheard phone conversation at Starbucks.
A former Texas prosecutor, now a sitting judge, has been accused of withholding exculpatory evidence in the prosecution of an Austin-area man who spent 25 years in prison for a…
The Mississippi Supreme Court has ordered the recusal of a judge who presided over an asbestos trial that resulted in a $322 million award for the plaintiffs.
A Muslim woman who reportedly was jailed for contempt of court after she refused to remove her religious head covering when she tried to accompany a nephew to a Georgia…
Justice Antonin Scalia took a hard line as the U.S. Supreme Court considered Wednesday whether a Lutheran school teacher may bring a retaliation suit for her firing.