A Pennsylvania lawyer who is currently a Republican state senator and is the sister of a state supreme court justice has been criminally charged for allegedly faking evidence in an…
A Georgia judge who acknowledged he let a child molestation case fall through the cracks has resigned amid an ethics investigation into the case and two other issues.
Corrected: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told law students on Monday that the Supreme Court confirmation process has become so partisan that she probably would not be confirmed if the vote…
Updated: A federal judge in Austin, Texas, has served notice on local lawyers that they would be well-advised to try harder to get along. In a Friday court order, he…
The Iowa Supreme Court has rejected a proposal aimed at speeding up the lawyer discipline process by keeping secret the reasons for consent suspensions.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser has admitted he touched the neck of a colleague who accused him of putting her in a chokehold, but said it was a reflexive…
The new chief justice of Barbados got much of his legal experience in New York, where he practiced law and worked in the New York State court system for more…
In the digital age, there’s less of a need to keep paper records on hand, and federal officials are in the process of destroying millions of court files in an…
Two justices who sit on the bench of Wisconsin’s top court won’t face criminal charges concerning an alleged violent encounter during in-chambers discussion of a collective-bargaining legislation case that resulted…
In a landmark ruling today, the New Jersey Supreme court changed procedural and evidentiary rules concerning eyewitness identification of suspects, saying that 30 years of scientific research had showed it…