A federal bankruptcy judge who tried without success to sponsor an African American as a member of his country club did not violate judicial ethics rules by refusing to resign,…
A former contract prosecutor for Warren Township has been awarded $1.4 million by a Morris County, N.J., jury in a whistle-blower suit. It contended she was fired after she complained…
In recent opinions, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court indicates that it has learned some lessons from the criminal cases against senior judges in Luzerne County and is likely to be tougher,…
As an unusual off-site jury selection process continued today in Pinellas County, Fla., for a high-profile murder trial in Orlando, the presiding judge had his patience tested.
A Washington state lawyer was stabbed in the neck with a pencil by his client during a hearing yesterday at the Snohomish County courthouse, reports the Daily Herald.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is making no secret of his displeasure over Washington, D.C.’s admission before trial that it had failed to turn over relevant emails in discovery.
The judge presiding over the political corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told one of his defense lawyers on Monday that he needed to stop asking questions that…
A Wisconsin judge on Monday said he didn’t believe a molestation defendant who insisted he was heterosexual, making his point with references to a jock strap and a prom dress.
Corrected: You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But for the zing that citing the lyrics of a popular song can bring to a court…
A federal appeals court has reaffirmed its earlier decision to grant habeas corpus relief to a 17-year-old mass murderer whose petition it had been told to reconsider by the U.S.…
An Oklahoma appeals court has overturned a woman’s murder conviction because a judge advised jurors not to be “hardheads” and told them to reach a quick verdict.
A Philadelphia judge admits she called a defendant “vile,” but it got deleted from the transcript because of her request for deletion of “nonjudicial” comments, according to a Pennsylvania Supreme…
After a Muslim woman was arrested and jailed for refusing to remove her hijab as she tried to enter a Douglas County courtroom, the Georgia Judicial Council adopted a policy…