A law professor representing a New Orleans federal judge in an impeachment trial before a special U.S. Senate committee came out swinging today as the hearing began its first day.
After cashing in a $79 million winning Powerball ticket that left him with about $30 million after taxes, W. Randy Smith decided to step down from his job as a…
The Supreme Court’s newest justice, Elena Kagan, has indicated she will recuse herself in more than half of the cases the Supreme Court has already agreed to hear this term.
Still fighting what some observers considered a too-lenient “public warning” over her 2007 refusal to authorize a court clerk to accept a late execution-eve appeal, the top criminal court judge…
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Wednesday supported judicial merit selection and three Iowa justices up for retention in November.
A George Washington University law professor will be leading the defense for U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. when the first phase of his impeachment trial begins next week…
A quote from the U.S. Supreme Court’s newest justice generated so many lookups on Merriam-Webster.com that the dictionary has proclaimed it one of its “Top Words of Summer 2010.”
A Tennessee serviceman in a years-long battle over custody of his teen daughter took his frustrations to the Internet, posting a YouTube rap that brought charges of threatening a judge.
A New Jersey judge accused of launching into a tirade against a pro se litigant in court has apologized for his remarks, which he says may have been inartful but…
Accused of harassment by a former client in a civil suit, a Canadian lawyer has now fired back, contending that Alex Chapman breached the terms of a $25,000 settlement agreement…
Updated: A Michigan juror who indicated in a Facebook post that she believed the defendant in her case is guilty—before the case went to verdict—wound up on the hot seat,…
Updated: After reporting yesterday the jaw-dropping details of an ex-client’s legal ethics complaint against his former divorce attorney and the lawyer’s wife, who is now a family court judge in…