An Ohio judge known for his creative sentences has devised a new one for a couple swept away in the Grand River during a severe flood after boarding a raft…
A recent Indiana Supreme Court finding that individuals have no right to resist police officers illegally entering their homes has instigated court death threats, the May 19, 2011 5:09 PM CDT
Corrected: President Obama yesterday nominated Morgan Christen, an Alaska Supreme Court justice, to the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Christen, 49, previously practiced with K&L Gates, the…
Wilson Sonsini Goodich & Rosati has hired William B. Chandler III, who is retiring as chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, the New York Times’ DealBook…
Union Carbide claims a record $322 million asbestos verdict should be overturned because the Mississippi trial judge failed to disclose that his father had filed two asbestos lawsuits.
An Ohio common pleas judge told nine members of his staff to quit the Fraternal Order of Police, according to the group’s Zanesville president, Tom Porter.
The Senate vote regarding judicial nominee Goodwin Liu, who has drawn significant criticism from Republican leaders, is scheduled for tomorrow, and politicians on both sides of the…
Justice Clarence Thomas says his colleagues remain on good terms despite their philosophical disagreements, unlike some critics of the court’s opinions.
Many of the critics have apparently never read the…
Former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Phillips has reached a tentative settlement in a suit claiming an underage drinking party outside his house led to the death of a…
A federal ethics panel’s split ruling on a judge’s country club membership is shining a spotlight on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Cincinnati.
Supreme Court litigators don’t speak much more than the justices during oral arguments, according to a first-hand participant, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
A Minnesota judge accused of a “vitriolic attack” on a court-monitoring group and its members’ intimidating red clipboards has won dismissal of ethics charges stemming from the incident.
Corrected: A lawyer representing the defendant in an ongoing felony murder and child-abuse trial was taken from a Michigan courtroom in handcuffs and jailed over the lunch hour after refusing…