Rejecting a Pennsylvania judge’s argument that the state’s highest court lacked the power to suspend her with pay prior to a hearing on the merits of its case against her,…
The newest judge in one of the nation’s most respected corporate courts is unusually outspoken about what he calls “the darker underside” of securities class actions and his opinion of…
An unusual court that travels to remote communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo is trying 11 government soldiers accused of raping more than 60 women in attacks on New…
Corrected: Tales recounted by a parade of witnesses at an ABA public hearing Wednesday painted a disturbing picture of how courts around the United States are being affected by budget…
An ethics complaint filed against a magistrate judge in Georgia’s Catoosa County claims he pointed a gun at himself in the courthouse, forced his way into another man’s home where…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has filed a notice of intent to sue two lawyers appointed to investigate him for ethical violations and a…
At first, then-Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. and a senior colleague in Luzerne County, Pa., allegedly laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks they received for sending juveniles to jail…
When a murder trial last year that was expected to take four weeks continued nearly two weeks longer, putting a Nevada judge’s vacation at risk, the judge resolved the problem…
Six federal judges have announced their retirements in the last six weeks, contributing to a growing number of judicial vacancies that are taxing some courts and delaying some trials.
Even though she is 23 and married, Daniella Ormsby cried when she recalled the nine months she spent in a juvenile detention facility in Pennsylvania as punishment for missing a…
The Virginia Supreme Court was unanimous when it ruled last month that state judges can’t use a writ of error coram vobis to reopen the cases of immigrants who weren’t…
Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, hasn’t given up her role in politics after relinquishing control of a group she founded in 2009 for “citizen…