An increasing number of federal judges appear to be hiring law clerks earlier than September of the 3L year, the time called for in voluntary guidelines adopted in 2003.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. admitted at a college appearance on Tuesday that he doesn’t usually read the fine print that computer users must agree to before accessing some…
The wife of Justice Clarence Thomas has confirmed that she left a voice mail for the woman who accused her husband of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing in 1991.
Legal observers are agog over two very different versions of a ruling in a habeas corpus case ordering the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was held nearly eight…
Nixed when he sought permission to continue with his longstanding sideline as a stand-up comedian, a New Jersey municipal judge will soon explain his position to the state supreme court.
Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote a landmark opinion in 1973 criticizing the country’s “long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination,” but three years before he had quickly dismissed the…
Overturning a lower court order requiring a Muslim woman to remove her niqab before testifying against two male relatives at a sexual assault trial, the Ontario Court of Appeal has…
A retired Michigan judge has been ordered to stand trial along with two Detroit-area police officers and Wayne County’s former chief drug prosecutor, who has also retired, for allegedly encouraging…
A Kansas City lawyer has been disbarred for charging a soldier a fee of $3,500 an hour, shouting profanities at court clerks, brawling with court security officers and suggesting that…