It was a Father’s Day much like any other for orthopedic surgery resident Dustin Loveland, who spoke with his dad a couple of times over the phone in the morning.…
Judge Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals does a lot of reading—but he apparently hates boilerplate as much as the next person.
A federal appeals court has reversed $25,000 in attorney’s fee sanctions imposed by a judge on a practitioner who won discrimination cases against FedEx, saying that the lawyer should have…
A New York judge is credited with developing a settlement negotiation model that is now being tried by five hospitals in a $2.9 million, three-year demonstration project funded by a…
In 11,000 e-mails released by the Clinton Presidential Library on Friday afternoon, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan emerges as politically savvy, sometimes sarcastic and given to an occasional swear word.
The American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a case that contends lack of judicial pay raises amounts to a constitutional violation.
A municipal judge in southern Texas was arrested today for allegedly using traffic fine money orders he received from three individuals who appeared before him to pay his own personal…
A public radio executive plans to use a Massachusetts courtroom as a laboratory to develop best practices for coverage of court proceedings by bloggers and journalists using new media.
Corrected: A magistrate judge in Catoosa County, Ga., was reportedly arrested and briefly jailed today after a courthouse standoff with sheriff’s deputies.
Judge Anthony Peters apparently barricaded himself in his…