Antonin Scalia bested his colleague Stephen G. Breyer for the best quotes Wednesday when the two justices appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to talk about the role of judges…
A New Mexico lawyer has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon—his car—for an alleged narrow miss with a judge crossing the street in front of the courthouse.
A Florida assistant public defender is asking a judge to poll jurors to determine whether lengthy deliberations contributed to a mood of grumpiness that influenced a guilty verdict in an…
Warned last year by a federal judge in New York that he would face sanctions if his discovery rambled on at length or didn’t elicit relevant information, an attorney has…
Corrected: A federal judge in Akron was emotional yesterday as she sentenced a former Ohio jurist to the maximum allowed by sentencing guidelines in a political corruption case.
The U.S. Supreme Court has 48 cases on the docket so far this term, and 20 of them hail from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus recalls covering Anita Hill’s allegations against Clarence Thomas during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing 20 years ago this month.
With unfailing courtesy, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 91, writes, in “informative and very appealing” fashion about his 34 years on the nation’s top court in Five…
An inmate on death row for murdering his estranged wife and brother-in-law in an Ohio domestic relations courtroom is pursuing a federal civil rights suit over the state prison system’s…
Editor’s Note: On this First Monday in October as justices convene for the U.S. Supreme Court’s fall term, the ABA Journal welcomes constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, who will write…