In another step toward a world in which parties, potentially, will routinely be allowed to testify in court despite the fact that they are not physically present, the New Hampshire…
Despite the cold weather, dozens of picketers have been protesting outside the law courts in Manitoba, Canada, over a judge’s decision not to sentence a convicted rapist to jail and…
When a federal judge contacted him for help in resolving his financial problems, a Louisiana attorney reportedly came up with an idea for keeping his name out of the newspaper…
President Lyndon Johnson’s plans to groom Thurgood Marshall for the U.S. Supreme Court are revealed in once-secret secret recordings and tape transcripts that have been released to CNN.
Out of an “abundance of caution,” a memo (PDF) circulated yesterday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is calling on federal judges to institute immediate belt-tightening…
After declining to require an out-of-state witness for the defense to testify in a drug-trafficking case, a leading Georgia judge found another way to allow the alibi witness to appear—Skype.
A group of more than 100 law professors is asking Congress to apply to the justices of the nation’s top court an ethics code that applies to other federal judges.
A former president judge in Pennsylvania who was accused of pocketing millions in job-related payments and putting juveniles in jail for his own financial benefit has been convicted on 12…
Critics see a veiled threat in a Montana congressman’s assertions that a federal judge should be put on the endangered species list for his ruling on protections for wolves.